It's hard for some men to finish their sentances

Robert BlyRobert Bly

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Sometimes a man can't say
What he . . . A wind comes
And his doors don't rattle. Rain
Comes and his hair is dry.There's a lot to keep inside
And a lot to . . . Sometimes shame
Means we. . . Children are cruel,
He's six and his hands. . .Even Hamlet kept passing
The king praying
And the king said,
"There was something. . . ."
Robert Bly
About the poet

Robert Bly

1926 -/AmericanRobert Bly was born in western Minnesota in 1926 to parents of Norwegian stock. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and spent two years there. After one year at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, he transferred to Harvard and thereby joined the famous…

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