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Gerald Stern

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This was gruesome—fighting over a ham sandwich …

Gerald Stern

I was waiting to try out one of my inventions …

Gerald Stern

At the confluence of tea roses and Russian sage …

Gerald Stern

In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake’s …

Gerald Stern

As far as clocks—and it is time to think of them— …

Gerald Stern

How dumb he was to wipe the blood from his eye …

Gerald Stern

Every city in America is approached …

Gerald Stern

He was cleaning leaves for one at a time …

Gerald Stern

Nothing by or for itself, the sound of …

Gerald Stern

Much better than a goat it was to drop …

Gerald Stern

Me trying to understand say whence …

Gerald Stern

Bing Crosby died in Spain …

Gerald Stern

In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture …

Gerald Stern

The thing about the dove was how he cried in …

Gerald Stern

Having outlived Allen I am the one who …

Gerald Stern

Look what it is to have forgotten …

Gerald Stern

I wanted to know what it was like before we …

Gerald Stern

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