“Introduction to poetry” By: Billy Collins

With an awkward, laborious strut I stagger towards the closet, bumping into my large dresser and stumbling over the pile of books on my carpeted floor, my head and nerves numb from a bottle of Nyquil, the all-too-familiar cool-blue liquid coursing through my small body and clouding my thoughts while a slow sensation of warmth from the vanishing ... ................
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