Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. - Robert Lowell

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You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

Robert Lowell

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

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