Billy Collins

I haven't ever been much of a poetry fan, even though I enjoy fiction more for the style of the writing and the turn of a phrase than for the plot, but while I'm on the subject and off topic....

Flock

It has been calculated that each copy of the Gutenburg Bible required the skins of 300 sheep.

I can see them
squeezed into the holding pen
behind the stone building
where the printing press is housed.

All of them squirming around
to find a little room
and looking so much alike
it would be nearly impossible to count them.

And there is no telling which one of them
will carry the news
that the Lord is a Shepherd,
one of the few things
they already know.

- Billy Collins

It's best to hear Billy read his own poetry. You can do that here.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.