the best cigarette
grrlscientist | April 1, 2008tags: The Best Cigarette, poetry, Billy Collins, streaming video
April is National Poetry Month, and I plan to post one poem per day, every day, this month (If you have a favorite poem that you'd like me to share, feel free to email it to me). For this first poem of the month, I found this gem by Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets. It is a streaming video where the poet reads his own poem in his luscious voice, and it is wonderfully animated by David Vaio of FAD [1:42]
The Best Cigarette
There are many that I miss
having sent my last one out a car…