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Billy Collins - Introduction to Poetry
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	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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