I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

- Billy Collins

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Walter Benjamin on 'The Man of the Crowd' http://www.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/pm/poe-benjamin01.htm

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