SEND POEMS! Also, here’s more poet laureate news
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Mike Pride of the Concord Monitor has a story today about Charles Simic, who stepped down as poet laureate after one year. Simic’s happy to return home to a life of writing poetry, since he was so busy that he hasn’t written a poem in about a year. Simic talks of his respect for Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate, and he reflects on the political culture and how the poet laureate job is too busy. We find a little of his outlook on President Bush and the war. Click the URL here.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
OVER YOU
your hard 2 get over your hard to get passed
i sit and i think a think and i sit its hard not to think of you
a seconds a miniute a minutes an hour sumtimes a think av not got the strength or the power
i look at my phone and wait for your call but deep down i know its not going to happen
so i pic up my phone and go to ring you and realise i cant
cause i need to be strong and need to be tough i have got the strengh i have got the power
i feel ten feet tall i feel like a tower now suddenly an hours an hour i have got the power
iv got over you