Seven Bastardized or Fake First Lines from Billy Collins's Poetry

1. While crossing the street I pause to consider the pattern of raindrops
   


2. Once in Chicago I saw the Sears Tower sway in a winter gust
   


3. I imagined the chair would be comfortable
   


4. I ask them to please shut up
   


5. The name of the author was Frank
   


6. I might as well begin by saying I like your purse


7. I dreamed of crowns of laurels and pages of books unbound