Ballistics by Billy Collins

Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-58836-763-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

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Tension

Never use the word suddenly just to create

tension.

—Writing Fiction

Suddenly, you were planting some yellow petunias

outside in the garden,

and suddenly I was in the study

looking up the word oligarchy for the thirty-seventh time.

When suddenly, without warning,

you planted the last petunia in the flat,

and I suddenly closed the dictionary

now that I was reminded of that vile form of governance.

A moment later, we found ourselves

standing suddenly in the kitchen

where you suddenly opened a can of cat food

and I just as suddenly watched you doing that.

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