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LE BABOUINISME by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT

First Line: WE HUNG IN TREES ONCE, AND SMALL BOYS WILL STILL
Last Line: SECURE IN THEIR GRIP ON A JOY WE BARELY APE

Poem Sources:

A NEW PLEIADE; SELECTED POEMS.
  CHAPPELL, FRED, KELLY CHERRY, R. H. W. DILLARD, BRENDAN GALVIN, GEORGE GARRETT, DAVID R. SLAVITT, AND HENRY TAYLOR.
  (1998)
 



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