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Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Red
Anger
Poet
Wheelbarrow
Simply
Wheelbarrows
Blood
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Black
Lust
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