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Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa in 1939. He received his B.A. from Iowa State and his M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author...
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by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison

Each time I go outside

the world is different.
This has happened all my life.

*

The clock stopped at 5:30
for three months.
Now it's always time to quit work,
have a drink, cook dinner.

*

"What I would do for wisdom,"
I cried out as a young man.
Evidently not much. Or so it seems.
Even on walks I follow the dog.

*

Old friend,
perhaps we work too hard
at being remembered.



From Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser. Copyright © 2003 by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press. All right reserved.
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