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In a poem by this man, the speaker believes that his proposition of “All I want is boundless love" should ideally make him “the least difficult of men.” This author memorialized a playwright nicknamed “Bunny,” V. R. Lang, including in a poem whose speaker carries his papaya juice and copy of Poems by Pierre Reverdy back to work. In a poem by this author, the speaker gets his shoes shined on a “Friday / three days after (*) Bastille day.” This poet of “A Step Away from Them” and “Meditations in an Emergency” recalls, ■END■

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