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Lewis, J. Patrick.
THE UNDERWEAR SALESMAN : AND OTHER JOBS FOR BETTER OR VERSE
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009
IL K-3, RL 3.5
ISBN 0689853254
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 "You wear them briefly / And if short,/I sell them chiefly / For support. / Whoever met you / without a pair/ Would not forget you -- / You'd be bare!"  So goes the poem about the underwear salesman.  J. Patrick Lewis has created a collection of poems about unusual occupations.  How many of these have you heard of?
SUBJECTS:     Occupations -- Poetry.
                        Work -- Poetry.
                        American poetry.

 
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