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TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 2 by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE WAS AN OLD POOP FROM POUGHKEEPSIE
Last Line: THAT PEPPY OLD POOP FROM POUGHKEEPSIE
Subject(s): LEAR, EDWARD (1812-1888);

Poem Sources:

COLLECTED POEMS: 1953 - 1993.
  UPDIKE, JOHN
  (1995)
 



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