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Simic,
Charles
. Serbian-American poet; 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry US Poet Laureate 2007–2008
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How To Psalmodize
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Written by:
Charles
Simic
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1. The Poet
Someone awake when others are sleeping,
Asleep when others are awake.
An illiterate who signs everything with an X.
A man about to be hanged cracking a joke.
2. The Poem
It is a piece of meat
Carried by a burglar
To distract a watchdog.
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