Responses to Billy Collins Questions

Question: "Why did you make the metaphors difficult to interpret?"
Response: The poem seems as if it was written for a laugh and to me was exactly supposed to make sense. Starting right from the title, Billy Collins is already telling the reader that the poem is going to be tedious and a receptive series of metaphors. However I feel that Collins didn't just make up random metaphors, it seems like he is trying to prove a point of how ridiculous he feels the original poem was. 


Question: "By making this poem are you trying to criticize the original poem or is it for a different reason?"
Response: I think that Billy Collins wrote this poem with the intention that the reader would laugh at his ridiculous metaphors. I don't know that he was exactly trying the 'criticize' the original poem, or maybe he was, but I thought that he was trying to joke around. He started and ended "Litany" with the two lines from the original poem and it seems to me that.... 


Question: "Do you believe your rewrite of this poem was better than the original poem?"
Response: I don't know that Billy Collins poem was necessarily supposed to be better than the original one, but I think he was trying to make a mockery of the original. It also seems as if Collins was trying to prove a point by using ridiculous metaphors in "Litany".