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POEM FOR A DIVORCED DAUGHTER by HORACE COLEMAN

First Line: IF SOME NOSEY BODY ASKS 'WELL, %IS YOU GOT A DADDY'
Last Line: ON YOUR HIPS AND LET IT SLIP: %'HE LOVES ME WHERE HE IS' %CAUSE I DO %WHERE I AM

Poem Sources:

LEAVING THE BOUGH; 50 AMERICAN POETS OF THE 80S.
  GAESS, ROGER (ED.)
  (1982)
 
IN SEARCH OF COLOR EVERYWHERE: A COLLECTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY.
  MILLER, E. ETHELBERT (ED.)
  (1994)
 



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