Death & Dying
Lydia Puckett
From Spoon River Anthology (1916)
Death & Dying
Knowlt Hoheimer ran away to the war
The day before Curl Trenary
Swore out a warrant through Justice Arnett
For stealing hogs.
But that’s not the reason he turned a soldier.
He caught me running with Lucius Atherton.
We quarreled and I told him never again
To cross my path.
Then he stole the hogs and went to the war—
Back of every soldier is a woman.
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Masters, Edgar Lee. “Lydia Puckett.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/masters/26/.
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Masters, Edgar Lee. “Lydia Puckett.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/masters/26/.
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