Some Days

Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "Some Days" 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 - Some days I put the people in their places at the table. Bend their legs at the knees if they come with that feature. And fix them into the tiny wooden chairs. All afternoon they face each other. The man in the brown suit, the woman in the blue dress. Perfectly motionless, perfectly behaved. But other days, I am the one who is lifted up by the ribs, then lowered into the dining room of a doll house to sit with the others at the long table. Very funny, but how would you like it if you didn't know from one day to the next if you were going to spend it striding around like a vivid God, your shoulders in the clouds. Or sitting down there amidst the wallpaper, staring straight ahead with your little plastic face.

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[loveyoutodeathbut]

Billy Collins has enriched my life =)

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The exigencies of suburban family life. Oh joy, let us consume another turkey and talk of pilgrims, and Jesus. "Whatever happened to those poor Indian savages Mumsy?" "Oh, dear! We must have the grace not to speak of them at the table" "Why does Billy have that plastic look on his face then?" "He always looks like that dear"

[phaedrica]

and that Master's is not serving so well, I see...This man is brilliant!

[phaedrica]

No, they just SOUND a LOT like each other, same thing I picked up on, but if you listen to his readings, you'll hear...

[phaedrica]

I saw this more of a "stuck in the boardroom" versus choosing a job/life/existence which affords you freedom, or the flight from the constraints of society/societal norms/expectations. How would YOU feel, if you were stuck there, staring at the wallpaper, or all those other people clad in business attire, at that long table in the boardroom, with your little, plastic (this isn't really who I am) face?

[dat2aa]

woops walked into the weird part of youtube again don't mind me on my way back to cat videos

[JaylynnBailey]

Who remembers, as a child, being lifted up by the ribs? I love this man.

[nihillae]

*speechless*

[CreativeHStudios]

great animation...creatively presented

[atha001]

this one is so cute too! :-)

[Halyna Myroslava]

!!!!!!!

Thanks