Shades of Grey

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Un cielo grigio che più grigio non si può.


St. Stephens
from the gate at Belvedere Palace


Lady in Grey


Do wise men get the grey sky blues, too?


Topsy-Turvy.
No wonder, too much grey!


Metamorphosis

If Kafka could turn a man into an insect in one sentence
perhaps he could transform me into something new,
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Not that I am so miserable, but I could use a change
of scenery and substance, plus the weather reminds me of him.
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Ah, to awaken one morning as the New York Public Library.
I would pass the days observing old men in raincoats
as they mounted the ponderous steps between the lions

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I would stare over Fifth Avenue with a perfectly straight face.

From:
"Questions About Angels"
Poems by Billy Collins
Page 70 of my paperback edition by
University of Pittsburgh Press
Originally published by W. W. Norton & Co., Inc
Copyright © 1991 by Billy Collins
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