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Frank Marshall Davis

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I am tired this night …

Frank Marshall Davis

Who named him Yard Bird? …

Frank Marshall Davis

Chicago is an overgrown woman …

Frank Marshall Davis

Chicago is an overgrown woman …

Frank Marshall Davis

I …

Frank Marshall Davis

“He is bitter …

Frank Marshall Davis

Giles Johnson …

Frank Marshall Davis

Her rum-brown rope of a voice …

Frank Marshall Davis

The moon was a thick slab of yellow cheese between thin slices of toasted clouds …

Frank Marshall Davis

I would be …

Frank Marshall Davis

I would be …

Frank Marshall Davis

The thin cool fingers of the wind …

Frank Marshall Davis

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