No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common mement…

William Carlos Williams
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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1938). The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938, Norfolk, Conn.
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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1938). The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938, Norfolk, Conn.

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