Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A.G., by DAVID IGNATOW



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First Line: Quick, get him into his grave
Last Line: What could grow from it?
Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Dead, The


Quick, get him into his grave,
he was a gambler and a waster,
indifferent to pain in others,
forty years of it, his wife made ill
of it, his children blighted,
lives a jumble and a toss.
He lived to see one die of it.

Rich, brown loam wasted on his coffin.
What could grow from it?





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