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Poet Analysis

First Line: ENOUGH TEA AND CIGARETTES HAVE BEEN CONSUMED HERE
Last Line: ON A ROADSIDE BENCH AND HE BEGINS TO RECOUNT %HIS ETYMOLOGY - THE LONG, SAD, WONDROUS STORY OF HIS %

Poem Sources:

POETRY, V159#4, JANUARY /92.
  (1992)
 



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