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Also: Charles Simic decides against seeking another year as U.S. poet laureate. And a question from Japan about the nation's Founding Fathers -- and Founding Mothers.
22 May 2008

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Charles Simic

a chessboard.
endgame.
near a Roman graveyard.
Planes and tanks
shook its windowpanes.
taught me how to play.
the paint had almost chipped off
the black pieces.
and had to be substituted for.
that that summer I witnessed
men hung from telephone poles.
blindfolding me a lot.
She had a way of tucking my head
suddenly under her overcoat.
the masters play blindfolded,
the great ones on several boards
at the same time."

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