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COVENTRY by JOHN ASHBERY

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First Line: THERE WAS ONE WHO WAS PUT OUT OF HIS HOUSE
Last Line: YET STRANGELY DUMB AND RUMORLESS %LIKE ALL THE SLEEP AND GAMES THAT JAMMED US HERE

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER, V69#34, OCTOBER 18/93.
  (1993)
 
AND THE STARS WERE SHINING.
  ASHBERY, JOHN
  (1994)
 



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