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Life Is Motion

by Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

In Oklahoma,
Bonnie and Josie,
Dressed in calico,
Danced around a stump.
They cried,
'Ohoyaho,
Ohoo' ...
Celebrating the marriage
Of flesh and air.




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