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“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            5

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                10

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           15

to find out what it really means.

Created by L. Straube with input from S. Campbell

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