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May 6, 2020

O Spring, if I were to face a firing squad
on a day like this, I’d wear
One of your roadside flowers
Behind my ear, lift my chin high....
Smile like a hair dresser
Giving Cameron Diaz a shampoo.

—Charles Simic
  Serbian-American poet (b. 1938)

Source: “O Spring” in The Lunatic (buy from Amazon)





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