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.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• poet
• laureat
• poetry
• Billy
• Collins
• animation
• JWT

[SpAzOwT13]

E P I C

[loveyoutodeathbut]

Billy Collins has enriched my life =)

[atha001]

this one is so cute too! :-)

[halynamyroslava]

!!!!!!!

Thanks

[7sunflowerseeds7]

both eerie and genuine



[WireMeUpNow]

0.0

[Brezzley]

@di8torted He looks like Kevin Spacey, too.

[ricknicklesarts]

how depressing

[spasibaspasibavic]

you guys are amazing

[poopyscoopy5]

@Kurzula5150

Who the fuck are you kidding? Your trendy ass works at the plastic face factory.

[di8torted]

@jdjbarnat It does sound like kevin spacey lol

[thtsritesun1212]

look at all those people. they are so high.