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HOMELESS by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: NO ROOM OF HIS OWN
Last Line: COME INSTEAD.
Subject(s): HOMELESS;
No room of his own,
he crawls into bed
in front of a hundred
pairs of eyes.

No easing of the strain
of living, as one can do
alone, letting the dream
come instead.



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