Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny!

Bugs

Billy Collins

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There he leans:
cracking wise,
biting his bright orange carrot
bugging the world
speed demon
ventriloquist
and master of disguise

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Read rest of poem at The Wall Street Journal

Bugs would do the impossible by jumping out of the frame and landing on the drawing board of the cartoonist who was at work creating him. This freedom to transcend the laws of basic physics, to hop around in time and space, and to skip from one dimension to another has long been a crucial aspect of imaginative poetry. Robert Bly developed a poetics based on the notion of psychic “leaping,” where the genius of a poem is measured by its ability to leap without warning from the conscious to the unconscious and back again.  -Billy Collins, Inspired by a Bunny Wabbit, Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2008

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