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William Carlos Williams

Work hard all your young days
and they’ll find you too, some morning
staring up under
your chiffonier at its warped
bass-wood bottom and your soul —
out!
— among the little sparrows
behind the shutter.

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From Al Que Quiere! | The Four Seas Company, 1917

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