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Publication Mon Oct 11 2010
Poet Talks Trout (Metaphorically) in Chicago
The current issue of the New Yorker includes a poem titled "Table Talk" by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. It opens:
Not long after we had sat down to dinner
at a long table in a restaurant in Chicago
and were deeply engrossed in the heavy menus,
one of us--a bearded man with a colorful tie--
asked if any one of us had ever considered
applying the paradoxes of Zeno to the martyrdom of St. Sebastian.
The differences between these two figures
were much more striking than the differences
between the Cornish hen and the trout amandine
I was wavering between, so I looked up and closed my menu.
Track down a copy of the New Yorker to read the rest.