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                   Wendy Cope (1945- )

    Being Boring
         "May you live in interesting times."
                                     — Chinese Curse

First Line:   If you ask me "What's new?", I have nothing to say

The above poem appeared in Cope's 2001 collection If I Don't
Know
. As such, it is protected by copyright and should not be
printed out or stored in any permanent form without permission
of the copyright holder. It can also be found in:

  • Bowen, Retta, Nick Temple, Nicholas Alberry, and Stephanie
    Weinreich, eds. Poem A Day: Volume 3. Hanover, New
    Hampshire: Steelforth Press, 2003.