How To Psalmodize
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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Charles Simic
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