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VETERAN'S HOSPITAL by BEN BELITT

Poem Explanation

First Line: BRINGING 'ONLY WHAT IS NEEDED - ESSENTIAL
Last Line: SMILE BY THE CLUBBED PLANTS ON THE PORTICO. %'THEY SHALL OVERCOME.'
Subject(s): PHYSICAL DISABILITIES;

Poem Sources:

DESPITE THIS FLESH; THE DISABLED IN STORIES AND POEMS.
  MILLER, VASSAR (ED.)
  (1985)
 
THE SCRIBE, MY HAND; THE COMPLETE POEMS OF BEN BELITT.
  BELITT, BEN
  (1998)
 



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