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Updike Mused on Own 'Overdue Demise'

3-stanza poem to be published this year

By Katherine Thompson, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 30, 2009 12:44 PM CST

(Newser) – John Updike considered his own mortality, and did so with his usual wry wit. The evidence is in one of his last poems called "Requiem," writes the New York Post. It begins:

"It came to me the other day:
Were I... Read full story »

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