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Added January 9, 2015
I am not thinking of Death, but Death is thinking of me.
Poem
2002
Mark Strand
Released
2002
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Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast.
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I'm gettin' tired of your shit You don't never buy me nothin'.