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By Billy Collins
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I ask them to take a poem and hold it to the light 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 and watch him probe his way out,
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Or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch.
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I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore.
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But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it.
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They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
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Visual Poetry
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