billy Collins
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I ask them to take a poem
And read it
Like they were the author,
Or subject, for that matter.
I say drop a lemon-scented pod into a poem
And watch it dissolve,
Who gives difficult work on the second day of school?
My AP Literature teacher.
Thats really how it happened;
She set the poem on every desk
And simply said, "analyze it."
It was a poem about,
Well,
