Darrel Alejandro Holnes — Amending Wall
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What Is the Word in English for Dying at the Crossing Between Countries?
In robert frost's poem mending walls, there's these two famous lines, good fences make good neighbors. Darlalhandraholness takes that poem and places it absolutely in contemporary here and now. He asks: What is the word in english for dying at the crossing between countries? And then white man is repeated six times. It feels like he is am introducing an echo into the robert fross poemThere are echoes within it, perhaps first of all, the echo of the word words.
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