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Ladybug.

Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	182
Issue	2
Published	2003-05-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

LADYBUG

   I first spotted her moving across a copy
   of the new Boston Review of Books,
   which I was eyeing with some suspicion
   as I ate dinner alone at the kitchen table.

   Then, as if she were sick of literature,
   exhausted by the thought of criticism,
   she slid onto the table and began to climb
   a porcelain holder for wooden matches,

   a remnant from the great Age of Smoking
   that I lifted long ago from a restaurant in France.
   I don't know where she thought she was headed
   as she ascended the little tower with such confidence

   you would think she had an...

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