Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”
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wore his
… life
like a …
sky.”
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14
73 poems (1963)
Context: p>a great
man
is
gone.Tall as the truth was who; and
wore his
… life
like a …
sky.</p
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