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THREE FROM DOZENS: 52 by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT

First Line: WHETHER CLEVER OR STUPID, THOSE BEAUTIFUL YOUNG
Last Line: AS DOCTORS PERMIT THEIR TERMINAL PATIENTS DOPE

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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