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TENDERITIS by MAXINE CHERNOFF

First Line: I WANT TO TELL JOKES %ABOUT TIE SALESMEN AND GIRLS
Last Line: AND THE UNDERBRUSH IS LIT %BY FALSE CANDLES, TELL ME %WHAT TO DO WITH HISTORY %THAT FASHIONED YOU AT

Poem Sources:

ILLINOIS VOICES; AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY.
  STEIN, KEVIN AND G. E. MURRAY (EDS.)
  (2001)
 
NEW FACES OF 1952.
  CHERNOFF, MAXINE
  (1985)
 
LEAP YEAR DAY.
  CHERNOFF, MAXINE
  (1990)
 



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