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Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
Billy Collins time school listening

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Unscramble BILLY5-letter words that start with B5-letter words that end in Y5-letter words containing IL5-letter words containing LY5-letter words with B and I
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
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CLTA
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BABY DOCTOR FOR SHORT
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