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CHILDHOOD OF PARMENIDES by CHARLES SIMIC

Poet Analysis

First Line: FOR ASKING, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING
Last Line: AND OF COURSE, PHILEMON, WHO'S ABOUT TO DIE LAUGHING %AT THE SIGHT OF AN ASS EATING FIGS

Poem Sources:

UNENDING BLUES.
  SIMIC, CHARLES
  (1986)
 
SELECTED POEMS 1963-1983.
  SIMIC, CHARLES
  (1990)
 



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