[New-Poetry] David Lehman

[David Graham]

August 6

On Charlie Simic's tape 
of great girl singers from the 1920s 
I love the song with the lines 
you're wonderful 
but I could be wrong 
I think I'll write a poem 
in which every second line admits 
that I could be wrong I'll call it 
"Poem of the Twentieth Century" 
every line will begin with a year 
1905: Einstein said light consists 
of quanta & behaves like both 
waves and particles 
but I could be wrong 
1964: Surgeon General declares 
smoking hazardous to your health 
but I could be wrong 
Some say the century began 
when you could measure either 
the position or the velocity 
of a moving object, not both. 
I say it began in June 1948
but I could be wrong


--David Lehman.  *The Daily Mirror:  A Journal in Poetry*.  Scribner, 2000.


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