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WAS A MAN by JOHN CIARDI

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First Line: TED ROETHKE WAS A TEARING MAN
Last Line: From the town's biggest crooks
Subject(s): ROETHKE, THEODORE (1908-1963);
Full Poem Text Available at
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqrarchive/act2080.0006.004/23:8?page=root;size=100;view=text


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