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For My Little Known Ancestor, Michael Adams
Who were you, sir?---when born?---when did you die?
And in what cemetery to you lie?
Consorting with Great Great Grandmother Jane
(who was---by family legend and repute---
during her youth, a gorgeous prostitute;
forced by her circumstance---that is our plain
hope), you fathered a child; by name, Lucinda,
who married a young farmer, farming in the
last decade of the nineteenth century.
Jane raised her without your assistance. We
who claim Jane and Lucinda's line by law
or blood withhold judgment: the mystery
is too obscure in mists of history.
Can you be known to us even at all?
Starward
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