Friday, February 23, 2007

Forgetfulness - Billy Collins Animated Poetry

Liked this a lot. Enjoy!

7 comments:

  1. That is lovely, and amazingly astute. Hate it when you cant remember someebody's name or how to spell a word properly.

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  2. Wow, loved that!

    Like you well know, continuing to learn stuff later in life, you sometimes feel like every time you add something to your mind, something else falls off the end.

    Which explains my constant "Umming" and "Erring" to people every second sentence anyway.

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  3. Anonymous5:42 pm

    that's great and spot on...

    I know what you mean Ing - I can remember bizarre & random rubbish but the stuff I could do to remember is often AWOL

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  4. Glad you liked it. I hadn't heard of his work before, but thought he really hit the nail on the head.

    He also has another poem on YouTube called The Dead, but I thought it might be too grim to post. I'd definitely recommend keeping an eye out for it.

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  5. Anonymous8:34 pm

    I liked that a lot!

    I too wonder where i squeeze all the info. I seem to retain all the random, nonsensical stuff and the important bits often fall off the end ;~)

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  6. If it's any consolation, I too have the mind like the sieve: all the good stuff gets drained off, leaving the rubbish staring damply back at me.

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  7. I've just got around to listening to this - it was beautiful. I'll definitely have a look for his other things.

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