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CELIBACY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHERE IS THE LOVE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Last Line: BIDING TIME!

Where is the love that might have been
Flung to the four far ends of Earth?
In my body stamping around,
In my body like a hound
Leashed and restless—
Biding time!



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