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IT'S NICE TO THINK OF TEARS by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT'S NICE TO THINK OF TEARS AS POLLIWOGS
Last Line: WHERE THE HANDS WERE HANGING DOWN, %WHERE THE DARK OLD HANDS WERE HELPLESS AND HANGING DOWN

Poem Sources:

LEAVING ANOTHER KINGDOM; SELECTED POEMS.
  STERN, GERALD
  (1990)
 



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