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GAME by CHARLES SIMIC

Poet Analysis

First Line: A CHILD PLAYED BEING A GRAVEDIGGER
Last Line: THEY OUGHT TO CALL HIM IN BY NOW: %THE CARROT-HAIRED GIRL IN THE HEN HOUSE; %HER SISTER AT THE SALT-

Poem Sources:

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



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