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THEM AND US by LUCILLE CLIFTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SOMETHING IN THEIR PSYCHE INSISTS ON ELVIS
Last Line: DEATH AND ELVIS, BUT WATCHING FOR MARVIN GAYE.
Subject(s): DEATH; FAME; HISTORY; PRESLEY, ELVIS (1937-1977); DEAD, THE; REPUTATION; HISTORIANS;

Poem Sources:

THE BOOK OF LIGHT.
  CLIFTON, LUCILLE
  (1993)
 



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