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  1. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    I can see one of them clearly now, walkingalong with a newspaper tucked under his arm.he has cut himself shaving and a bit of tissuewith a circle of blood is stuck to his cheek,
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  2. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    When i believe in everything, I could not seethe actors semicircled around a studio microphoneflipping the pages of scripts in unison.I only heard the voices, resonant, electric, adult,accusing each other of murder.
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  3. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    though they know in their adult hearts,even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bedfor his appalling behavior,that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids,their wives are Dopey Dopeheadsand that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.
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  4. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    There are easier ways of making sense,the connoisseurship of gesture, for example.You hold a girl's face in your hands like a vase.You lift a gun from the glove compartmentand toss it out the window into the desert heat.
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  5. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    The fly lands on the swatter.The movie runs backwardsand catches fire in the projector.This species apes us wellby talking only about itself
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  6. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    After counting all the sheep in the worldI enumerate the wildebeests, snails,camels, skylarks, etc.,then I add up all the zoos and aquariums,country by country.By early light I am asleepin a nightmare about drowning in the Flood,
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  7. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    These days every morning begins like a joke you think you have heard before, but there is no one telling it whom you can stop. One day it's about a cow who walks into a bar, then about a man with a big nose on his honeymoon, then about a kangaroo who walks into a bar. Each one takes up an entire day. The sun looks like a prank Nathanael West is pulling on the world; on the drive to work cars are swinging comically from lane to lane. The houses and lawns belong in cartoons. The hours collapse into one another's arms. The stories arc over noon and descend like slow ferris wheels into the haze of evening. You wish you could stop listening and get serious. Trouble is you cannot remember the punch line which never arrives till very late at night, just as you are reaching for the bedside lamp, just before you begin laughing in the dark.
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  8. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    You trip over a word while carryinga tray of vocabulary out to the poolonly to discover that broken glassis a good topic.
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  9. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    a long time ago when cataclysms were commonas sneezes and land masses slidaround the globe looking for placesto settle down and become continents,someone introduced us at a party.
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  10. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.
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  11. Billy Collins _ The Apple that Astonished

    I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slideor press an ear against its hive.I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out,or walk inside the poem's roomand feel the walls for a light switch.I want them to waterskiacross the surface of a poemwaving at the author's name on the shore.But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.
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