Vulgar words in Spoon River Anthology (Page 1)

This book at a glance

damn x 1
white trash x 1
whore x 1
            

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That I was purer blooded than the white trash here?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 708   ~   ~   ~

Why, it wasn't worth a damn!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 992   ~   ~   ~

But there were flies and poisonous things; And there was the deadly water, And the cruel heat, And the sickening, putrid food; And the smell of the trench just back of the tents Where the soldiers went to empty themselves; And there were the whores who followed us, full of syphilis; And beastly acts between ourselves or alone, With bullying, hatred, degradation among us, And days of loathing and nights of fear To the hour of the charge through the steaming swamp, Following the flag, Till I fell with a scream, shot through the guts.

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