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In Ohio: A Town and the Bard Who Left It

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For the river at Wheeling, West Virginia,

Has only two shores:

The one in hell, the other

In Bridgeport, Ohio.

And nobody would commit suicide, only

To find beyond death

Bridgeport, Ohio.


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