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DEAD BODY ITSELF by SHARON OLDS

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT KILLED ME, AFTER HE DIED, THE WAY WE LEFT HIM
Last Line: ALREADY LIVED ON THIS EARTH BEFORE GOD %TOOK THAT SPECIAL CLAY AND MADE HIS OWN SET OF PEOPLE

Poem Sources:

AGNI, #29/30.
  (1991)
 



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