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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOU TAUGHT ME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poet's Biography
First Line: All those years, alone
Last Line: I didn't even know my name!
Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sons; Childhood; Parenthood
First Line: All those years, alone
Last Line: I didn't even know my name!
Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sons; Childhood; Parenthood
All those years, alone,
Married to the intense uninteresting life . . .
And, until you came, Tomasito,
I didn't even know my name!
Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org
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