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You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

Mary Jo Bang

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Mary Jo Bang
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 22
Poet
Sociologist
Writer
Waynesville
Missouri
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Reduced
Away
Grief
Mother
Lifetime
Children
Sorrow
Whose
Hair
Child
Tearing
Lasts
Swept

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