The Orange bears with soft friendly eyes
Who played with me when I was ten,
Christ, before I'd left home they'd had
Their paws smashed in the rolls, their backs
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Mr Patchen, the Whitman of his day, the odd man out, was a witness to the horror of the poor man but also the user of language like it was a friend and not some lost virgin.
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Mr Patchen, the Whitman of his day, the odd man out, was a witness to the horror of the poor man but also the user of language like it was a friend and not some lost virgin.