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HOSPITAL by KARL SHAPIRO

Poet Analysis

First Line: INSIDE OR OUT, THE KEY IS PAIN. IT HOLDS
Last Line: Are, for the most part, human but unbandaged
Subject(s): HOSPITALS; PAIN; SUFFERING; MISERY;

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