<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5754dbdd-b6a9-4c52-89a8-cfd8f42b3cf5/81E2E562-7B9A-4C4A-9446-0AC852AEA7CD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/11/12/" href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/11/12/" style="font-size: 11px;">writersalmanac.publicradio.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/11/12/"><P class="poem"><DIV><STRONG>Poem:</STRONG> "I Used to Be but Now I Am" by Ted Berrigan, from <EM>The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan</EM>. © University of California Press, 2005. Reprinted with permission.(<A target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520251555?ie=UTF8&tag=writal-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0520251555">buy now</A>) </DIV><BR /><DIV> <STRONG>I Used to Be but Now I Am</STRONG> </DIV> I used to be inexorable,<BR /><DIV> But now I am elusive.</DIV> I used to be the future of America,<BR /><DIV> But now I am America.</DIV> I used to be part of the problem,<BR /><DIV> But now I am the problem.</DIV> I used to be part of the solution, if not all of it,<BR /><DIV> But now I am not that person.</DIV> I used to be intense, & useful,<BR /><DIV> But now I am heavy, & boring.</DIV> I used to be sentimental about myself, & therefore ruthless, But now I am, I think, a sympathetic person, although<BR /><DIV>               easily amused.</DIV> I used to be a believer,<BR /><DIV> But now, alas, I believe.</DIV> <BR /> </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/81E2E562-7B9A-4C4A-9446-0AC852AEA7CD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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