“These are roads to take when you think of your country
and interested bring down the maps again,
phoning the statistician, asking the dear friend,
reading the papers with morning inquiry.”

Source: "The Road" U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead

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poet and political activist 1913–1980

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