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I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.
W. D. Snodgrass
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W. D. Snodgrass
Age: 83 †
Born: 1926
Born: January 5
Died: 2009
Died: January 13
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University Teacher
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Beaver Falls
Pennsylvania
Love
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Came
Bark
Names
Crying
Woman
Ease
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Men
Dying
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