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Showing posts with label american names. Show all posts

Monday, 6 August 2012

Quotes on NAME


I have fallen in love with American names ,

The sharp names that never get fat,

The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,

The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,

Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.


                  -STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, American Names