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Wislawa Szymborska

This is what I see in my  dreams about final exams:
two monkeys, chained to the floor, sit on the windowsill,
the sky behind them flutters,
the sea is taking its bath.

The exam is the History of Mankind.
I stammer and hedge.

One monkeys stares and listens with mocking disdain,
the other seems to be dreaming away-
but when it's clear that I don't know what to say
he prompts me with a gentle
clinking of his chain.
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