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They were or they weren't.
On an island or not.
An ocean or not an ocean
Swallowed them up or it didn't.


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And who's this little fellow in his itty-bitty robe?
That's tiny baby Adolf, the Hitlers' little boy!


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Wisława Szymborska

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Born: July 2, 1923
Died: February 1, 2012 (aged 88)
Bio: Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she later resided in Kraków until the end of her life.
Known for:
  1. Poems, new and collected, 1957-1997 (1998)
  2. View with a Grain of Sand (1996)
  3. Non-required Reading (1992)
  4. Nothing Twice: Selected Poems (1997)
  5. Miracle Fair (2001)
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