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Poet: Charles Simic
Poem: Watermelons
Volume: Return to a Place Lit By a Glass of Milk
Year: Published/Written in 1974
Comment 1 of 1, added on August 28th, 2005 at 11:30 AM.
I love this poem because it makes an offhand comment about life. We
try, and when we're in a buddha-state, we succeed, in taking from
life the sweetness while spitting out the bitter. Saw a guy in Provincetown who had this poem printed on the back of his green t-shirt. Very cool.
Susan Hradil from United States
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I love this poem because it makes an offhand comment about life. We
try, and when we're in a buddha-state, we succeed, in taking from
life the sweetness while spitting out the bitter. Saw a guy in Provincetown who had this poem printed on the back of his green t-shirt. Very cool.
Susan Hradil from United States