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Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

Claude McKay

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Claude McKay
Age: 41 †
Born: 1989
Born: September 15
Died: 1948
Died: May 22
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Clarendon Parish
Jamaica
Hugh Hope
Festus Claudius McKay
C. E. Edwards
Behinds
Ghosts
Behind
Flat
Tenement
Strange
Flats
Tenements
Lines
Indifferent
Incongruous
Upon
Hang
Linking
Like
Ghost
Suspended
Shining
Moonlight
Clothes
Shines

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