Great Regulars: We haven't shown you many poems in

which the poet enters another person and speaks through him or her, but it is, of course, an effective and respected way of writing. Here Philip Memmer of Deansboro, N.Y., enters the persona of a young woman having an unpleasant experience with a blind date.

The Paleontologist's Blind Date

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 240

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