Fifty-nine year old Richard Smith, of Sylvania Township, doesn't need a state poet laureate - or someone like Maya Angelou reading a poem at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration - to appreciate poetry. He instantly knew his favorite poem If ... If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Beefy face an' grubby 'and --
Law!
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