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Respect Their Bodies The idea of the poem Their Bodies is living people should respect the dead, no matter the identity of the dead person. The poem Their Bodies was written by David Wagoner, and was about how dead people should be respected by the living, no matter who the dead person was. This paragraph will be about said poem. Proof that the poem Their Bodies is about earlier said subject can be found near the end of the poem: “They gave away the gift of those useful bodies. Against his wish. (They had their own way of doing everything, always.) If you’re not certain which ones are theirs, be gentle to everybody” This quote from the poem shows that the proof given earlier is true. Another possible meaning could be that when Wagoner’s parents

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