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Logician

Text of Poem

Pete Eversen was called four-eyed Pete
because he wore glasses
but he saw duty plain nevertheless.
When he found the hired man with his wife
he shot her instead
because help was hard to get
and anyway whose fault was it?

First Line
Pete Everson was called four-eyed Pete
Original Pub Location
Original Publication Date
1943
Original Citation
The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 27.
Republication
Complete Poems
54
Hearst Collections
Word Count
41
Poetic Form
open
Themes