Yvonne Romney Dixon

For Catherine

So Stevenson be glad—
Whatever your life was, your dreams were,
I do not know and you cannot care,
Fallen like a stone on that hot street.

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Adlai Stevenson Died in Palermo

Adlai Stevenson died in Palermo. 
In the airport. His face was pasted 
On the newsstand, bobbing in and out among 
Jabbering Sicilians, their sweaty hands 
Sticky with orange soda pop, 

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