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SMALL COUNTRY by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA

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First Line: BEHIND YOU %A RIOT OF PALLID ORPHANS
Last Line: TO OFFER TEN CENTAVOS TO A BEGGAR %AND TO FEEL COMPASSION

Poem Sources:

A BOOK OF WOMEN POETS FROM ANTIQIUTY TO NOW. REVISED ED.
  BARNSTONE, ALIKI, & BARNSTONE, WILLIS
  (1992)
 



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