a friend of mine
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A Friend of MineAuthor(s): William Carlos WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 13, No. 6 (Mar., 1919), p. 302Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20572023 .
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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse
A FRIEND OF MINE
Well, Lizzie Anderson! seventeen men-and The baby hard to find a father for!
What will the good father in heaven say To the local judge if he do not solve this problem? Does one with a little two-pointed smile Change the law-pouff!-into a mouthful of phrases?
THE GENTLE MAN
I feel the caress of my own fingers On my own neck as I place my collar And think pityingly of the kind Women I have known.
TO BE CLOSELY WRITTEN ON A SMALL PIECE OF PAPER
WHICH FOLDED INTO A TIGHT LOZENGE WILL
FIT ANY GIRL S LOCKET
Lo the leaves Upon the new autumn grass Look at them well . . .!
THE SOUGHING WIND
Some leaves hang late, and some fall Before the first frost-so goes The tale of winter branches and old bones.
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