Mario Benedetti Poetry

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When We Were Kids

‘When We Were Kids’ is written by the Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti. This epigrammatic poem deals with the concept of death.

When we were kids,
the old ones were about thirty.
A puddle was an ocean,
death plain and simple

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