If I said I meant Easter eggs as in video games, would that make you want to read this?

I think the reason so many people don't like poetry is because it seems to take an awful lot of work to get to the bottom of a poem.  It's like digging for Easter eggs.  That's why I didn't really get into poetry until I discovered Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.  They are two confessional poets, and that just made what they were writing so much more accessible.  Then there's Billy Collins.  Billy Collins was the Poet Laureate of the U.S. in 2001.  Poet Stephen Dunn once said about him, "He doesn't hide things from us, as I think lesser poets do. He allows us to overhear, clearly, what he himself has discovered."  I leave you the following poem, and you can see if you think that holds true:

Introduction to Poetry

-Billy Collins

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.