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BENDIX by JOHN UPDIKE

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First Line: THIS PORTHOLE OVERLOOKS A SEA
Last Line: While mother cooly makes inside / her little jugged apoocalypse
Subject(s): LAUNDRY & LAUNDERING; WASHING MACHINES;
Full Poem Text Available at
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Collected_Poems_of_John_Updike_1953_1993/eP0VMSOXLf8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=updike+%22This+porthole+overlooks+a+sea%22&pg=PT477&printsec=frontcover


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