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Frank Stanford (1948–1978) was born August 1, 1948, in southeast Mississippi. He was adopted by Dorothy Gilbert Alter, a widow and Firestone’s first female manager. In 1952, she married [...]

While my mother is washing the black socks Of her religion, I climb out of the washtub, Stinking clean like the moon and the suds In my ass, The twenty she earned last week in my teeth, My shoes [...]