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 barber pole I stood in front of
 as a boy, the new housing project,
-chain-lined walks, blacktop sweat, poverty just a spelling word.</poem></div>
+chain-lined walks, blacktop sweat,poverty just a spelling word.</poem></div>
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 Someone believes, someone bleeds.
 A girl bolts screaming from bed,</poem></div>
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-<poem>
-her hands pathetic wild birds,
-a wooden man plods from
-the house of his single mind.
-At such times, when the cover
-is torn off catalog comforts
-and nothing grown seems full,</poem></div>
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-<poem>
-the child sliding head-first
-into home, center of a good idea,
-dustily rises, clear on the score,
-and the words that passed for life
-go in one ear and out the other,
-a naughty habit never broken.
-</poem></div>
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