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Untitled, 072820131301 [draft For Gettysburg, Whitman]

Smell the breath of grass First at their backs and bayonetted sides Because this, the duty of the living:

July 28, 2013

Joseph M. Gerace

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America, civil war, colors, death, first draft, history, humanity, landscape, life, mortality, New York Times, Pennsylvania, philosophy, poetry, rumination, scansion, war, Whitman

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