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Billy Collins (22 March 1941 - / New York City)
Poems of Billy Collins
| 1. | Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House | 1/13/2003 |
| 2. | By A Swimming Pool Outside Syracusa | 1/13/2003 |
| 3. | Candle Hat | 1/13/2003 |
| 4. | Child Development | 1/13/2003 |
| 5. | Consolation | 1/13/2003 |
| 6. | Dear Reader | 1/13/2003 |
| 7. | Embrace | 2/13/2007 |
| 8. | Fishing On The Susquehanna In July | 1/13/2003 |
| 9. | Flames | 1/13/2003 |
| 10. | For Bartleby The Scrivener | 1/13/2003 |
| 11. | Forgetfulness | 1/13/2003 |
| 12. | I Ask You | 1/13/2003 |
| 13. | I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakey's Version Of "Three Blind Mice" | 1/13/2003 |
| 14. | I Go Back To The House For A Book | 1/13/2003 |
| 15. | Introduction To Poetry | 1/13/2003 |
| 16. | Invention | 1/13/2003 |
| 17. | Japan | 1/13/2003 |
| 18. | Litany | 1/13/2003 |
| 19. | Madmen | 1/13/2003 |
| 20. | Man Listening To Disc | 1/13/2003 |
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On Turning Ten
The whole idea of it makes me feel
like I'm coming down with something,
something worse than any stomach ache
or the headaches I get from reading in bad light--
a kind of measles of the spirit,
a mumps of the psyche,
a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul.
You tell me it is too early to be looking back,
