drop a mouse into a poem ...
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dragonyphoenixFor the new year, an adorable poem: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
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Date: 2016-01-01 08:04 am (UTC)Happy new year to you, too!
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Date: 2016-01-01 03:59 pm (UTC)Happy New Year to you too!
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Date: 2016-01-01 04:46 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing.
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Date: 2016-01-01 04:47 pm (UTC)