Billy Collins

Note to Thomas Stearns Eliot

I just dared to eat

a really big peach

while I had on

a pair of plaid shorts

and a blue tee shirt full of holes

and little rivers of juice

are now running down my chin

and dripping onto the pool deck.

What is your problem, man?

Author: Billy Collins

BILLY COLLINS’s most recent collection of poems is WATER, WATER.  Forthcoming later this year is DOG SHOW, an illustrated book of his poems about dogs.

 

Plume: Issue #31 January 2014