Introduction
to Poetry
- Billy Collins
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I ask them to take a poem
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and hold it up to the light
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like a color slide
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or press an ear against its hive.
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I say drop a mouse into a poem
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and watch him probe his way out,
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or walk inside the poem’s room
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and feel the walls for a light switch.
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I want them to waterski
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across the surface of a poem
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waving at the author’s name on the shore.
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But all they want to do
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is tie the poem to a chair with a rope
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and torture a confession out of it.
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They begin beating it with a hose
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to find out what it really means.
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