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I might as well begin by saying how much I like the title	A
It gets me right away because I'm in a workshop now	B
so immediately the poem has my attention	C
like the Ancient Mariner grabbing me by the sleeve	D
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And I like the first couple of stanzas	E
the way they establish this mode of self pointing	F
that runs through the whole poem	G
and tells us that words are food thrown down	H
on the ground for other words to eat	I
I can almost taste the tail of the snake	J
in its own mouth	K
if you know what I mean	L
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But what I'm not sure about is the voice	M
which sounds in places very casual very blue jeans	N
but other times seems standoffish	O
professorial in the worst sense of the word	P
like the poem is blowing pipe smoke in my face	Q
But maybe that's just what it wants to do	R
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What I did find engaging were the middle stanzas	E
especially the fourth one	C
I like the image of clouds flying like lozenges	E
which gives me a very clear picture	S
And I really like how this drawbridge operator	S
just appears out of the blue	R
with his feet up on the iron railing	F
and his fishing pole jigging I like jigging	F
a hook in the slow industrial canal below	T
I love slow industrial canal below All those l's	U
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Maybe it's just me	V
but the next stanza is where I start to have a problem	G
I mean how can the evening bump into the stars	W
And what's an obbligato of snow	T
Also I roam the decaffeinated streets	X
At that point I'm lost I need help	Y
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The other thing that throws me off	Z
and maybe this is just me	V
is the way the scene keeps shifting around	A2
First we're in this big aerodrome	B2
and the speaker is inspecting a row of dirigibles	X
which makes me think this could be a dream	C2
Then he takes us into his garden	C
the part with the dahlias and the coiling hose	X
though that's nice the coiling hose	X
but then I'm not sure where we're supposed to be	V
The rain and the mint green light	D2
that makes it feel outdoors but what about this wallpaper	S
Or is it a kind of indoor cemetery	V
There's something about death going on here	E2
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In fact I start to wonder if what we have here	E2
is really two poems or three or four	F2
or possibly none	C
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But then there's that last stanza my favorite	G2
This is where the poem wins me back	F
especially the lines spoken in the voice of the mouse	X
I mean we've all seen these images in cartoons before	F2
but I still love the details he uses	X
when he's describing where he lives	X
The perfect little arch of an entrance in the baseboard	H2
the bed made out of a curled back sardine can	I2
the spool of thread for a table	A
I start thinking about how hard the mouse had to work	F
night after night collecting all these things	X
while the people in the house were fast asleep	J2
and that gives me a very strong feeling	F
a very powerful sense of something	F
But I don't know if anyone else was feeling that	K2
Maybe that was just me	V
Maybe that's just the way I read it	G2

Billy Collins

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