By A Swimming Pool Outside Syracusa Poem by Billy Collins

By A Swimming Pool Outside Syracusa

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All afternoon I have been struggling to communicate in Italian with Roberto and Giuseppe, who have begun to resemble the two male characters in my Italian for Beginners, the ones who are always shopping or inquiring about the times of trains, and now I can hardly speak or write English.

Billy Collins
Monday, January 13, 2003
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Susan Williams 19 December 2015

Now that is awesome how he trusts the reader to understand without having to have it broke down in words of one syllable! Great understatement and humor

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Gabrielle 23 April 2018

Short but didn't really help me.

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Lucas simich 29 November 2017

Short but nice poem

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UR DAD 13 November 2020

NAH BORING TO SHORT YOU NEED A LONGER ONE JT! }+_{ +_+ X_X LOL

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UR SON 24 March 2021

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UR DAD 13 November 2020

NAH BORING TO SHORT YOU NEED A LONGER ONE JT! }+_{

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Taleah Capewell@wfstu.catholic.edu.au 14 August 2019

this is not i want so you better change this now thank you so much so i want a poem

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? ? ? ? ? 05 March 2019

this did not help me at all

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