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The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon-colored Gloves
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Kenneth Patchen, “The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon-colored Gloves” from Collected Poems. Copyright 1943 by Kenneth Patchen. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Source: Selected Poems (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1957)
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