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FOR MALCOLM: AFTER MECCA by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX

First Line: YOU LIE NOW IN MANY COFFINS
Last Line: WITHOUT RECOGNIZING THE MAN YOU WERE %LAY IN OUR SHAME %AND YOUR GROWTH INTO MARTYRDOM
Subject(s): ASSASSINATION; HOLIDAYS;

Poem Sources:

O FRABJOUS DAY! POETRY FOR HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
  LIVINGSTON, MYRA COHN (ED.)
  (1977)
 
THE POETRY OF BLACK AMERICA; ANTHOLOGY OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
  ADOFF, ARNOLD (ED.)
  (1973)
 



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