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NAMING OUR BOY by CHARLES HARPER WEBB

First Line: THE JOKES COME FIRST
Last Line: FOR US, %TOUCHED MY ARM, AND WHISPERED, YOUR SHOT, SON.
Subject(s): BABIES; BOYS; FATHERS AND SONS; NAMES; POETRY AND POETS;

Poem Sources:

TULIP FARMS AND LEPER COLONIES; POEMS.
  WEBB, CHARLES HARPER
  (2001)
 



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