<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">Introduction to Poetry</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> I ask them to take a poem</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> and hold it up to the light</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> like a color slide</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> or press an ear against its hive.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> I say drop a mouse into a poem</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> and watch him probe his way out,</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> or walk inside the poem's room</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> and feel the walls for a light switch.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> I want them to waterski</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> across the surface of a poem</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> waving at the author's name on the shore.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> But all they want to do</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> is tie the poem to a chair with rope</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> and torture a confession out of it.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> They begin beating it with a hose</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> to find out what it really means.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"> - Billy Collins</font></div></body></html>