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The Iconoclast
Thursday, 29 June 2006
First Lines

Did we ever do favorite first lines of poems?

 Here's my nomination:

"I work all day, and get half-drunk at night."

—-Philip Larkin, "Aubade" 

That should cheer Rebecca up.

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29 Jun 2006
Marisol Seibold
All of my favorites seem to start with "There once was a..."
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