INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

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• Hold it up to the light like a color slide.

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• 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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• Walk inside the poems room and feel the walls for a light switch

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• I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem

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• Waving at the authors name on the shore

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• Tie the poem to a chair with rope

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• 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