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Uploaded by on Feb 14, 2007

Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "Budapest" with animation by Julian Grey of Headgear.

Noted for their intelligent humor, accessibility and observations on daily life, Collins' popular poems come alive further in a series of animated poems produced by JWT-NY.

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The Poem - My pen moves along the page like the snout of a strange animal, shaped like a human arm and dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater. I watch it sniffing thepaper ceaselessly, intent as any forager that has nothing on its mind but the grubs and insects that will allow it to live another day. It wants only to be here tomorrow, dressed perhaps in a sleeve of a plaid shirt, nose pressed against the page, writing a few more dutiful lines while I gaze out the window and imagine Budapest, or some other city where I have never been.

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  • video was very lovely, and what a great poem ^-^

  • looking at the comments here( and speaking both languages)

    1. you should not hate what you do not understand or misinterpreted

    2. learn.study.learn.study.learn.­study.

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  • Lovely poem, strong atmosphere!

    Greetings from Pest!

  • Lovely poem, strong atmosphere!

    Greetings from Pest!

  • @chrissblack22

    as I know JWTNY...is not a jewish person but an ad agency:) before you spit inform yself:)

  • Szerintem gyönyörű ez a vers. És ez a kisfilm is hozzá. És úgy mondom ezt, hogy itt élek Budapesten.

  • so many haters in that small country.

  • Hey JWTNY, you disgusting jew, at least you should say correct the name of our capitol, not "s" but ""sh".

  • @Popi17Cool

    Suck my cock, romania

  • @Popi17Cool fuck you too :)

  • @Popi17Cool Whats your problem u racist bastard?

  • @Popi17Cool I guess you are kinda like a gipsy or something but that you have no brain that's sure

    What's your problem with hungarians?

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