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FOR WCW by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: WE SAT IN ROWS LISTENING TO YOUR POEMS
Last Line: BLEATING HIS LINES.
Subject(s): FUNERALS; POETRY & POETS; WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS (1883-1963); BURIALS;
We sat in rows listening to your poems
being read at your funeral. I heard them
as you would have read them. He's not
dead, he could never die, I said to myself.
This stuff's not for funerals,
whoever you are, reading from the pulpit
in a priest's garb. You are dead wrong,
the man still is with us,
bleating his lines.



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