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"More Than A Woman".

Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	179
Issue	5
Published	2002-02-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

"MORE THAN A WOMAN"

   Ever since I woke up today,
   a song has been playing uncontrollably
   in my head--a tape looping

   over the spools of the brain,
   a rosary in the hands of a frenetic nun,
   mad fan belt of a tune.

   It must have escaped from the radio
   last night on the drive home
   and tunneled while I slept

   from my ears to the center of my cortex.
   It is a song so cloying and vapid
   I won't even bother mentioning the title,

   but on it plays as if I were a turntable
   covered with dancing children
   and their spooky pantomimes,

   as if everything I...

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