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A Quick Look At Charles Simic
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   [1]Charles Simic is to be named Poet Laureate today taking over from
   Donald Hall. Simic is 69, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and has
   published more than 20 volumes of poetry. Most everything I've come
   across of his, I've liked and I particularly like the poem Late
   September. It so much reminds me of the faded, wind savaged beach
   towns on Highway 101 we drove when I was a kid.

     Late September

     The mail truck goes down the coast

     Carrying a single letter.

     At the end of a long pier

     The bored seagull lifts a leg now and then

     And forgets to put it down.

     There is a menace in the air

     Of tragedies in the making.

     Last night you thought you heard television

     In the house next door.

     You were sure it was some new

     Horror they were reporting,

     So you went out to find out.

     Barefoot, wearing just shorts.

     It was only the sea sounding weary

     After so many lifetimes

     Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere

     And never getting anywhere.

     This morning, it felt like Sunday.

     The heavens did their part

     By casting no shadow along the boardwalk

     Or the row of vacant cottages,

     Among them a small church

     With a dozen gray tombstones huddled close

     As if they, too, had the shivers.

     By Charles Simic

   [2]Charles Simic [3]Poet Laureate [4]Mover Mike

References

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