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Allie and the Catcher's Mitt

If a body catch a body
coming through the rye

Prevent it falling off a cliff
Or it will surely die

If a body lose a body
It could not deny

If it knew it was not a body
It would never cry

lossbodyrhyme

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Yoni Dvorkis

January 26, 2009 at 9:12 PM

yeah this one's extra vague so I'll explain what I mean: First verse is the song that Holden (Catcher in the Rye) sings to his sister Phoebe, catch the kids before they fall off the cliff to phony adulthood. Allie was his brother who wrote poetry on his catcher's mitt and died before adulthood. The poem follows Holden's misery over losing his brother and then tells him that he has nothing to fear because his brother's always with him and so he's never really alone. This is how I see it anyway.