Two Poems
"Ran afoul my nature to spend some time
in prison. To think
on what I'd done:
"Ran afoul my nature to spend some time
in prison. To think
on what I'd done:
Fish are swimming at ease—
this is the happiness of fish.
But the sage kings are dead
A canvas we cannot stretch across the frame
nor staple down to fact: a ladder leaning
against an awning, workers pitching tar
I knew the length of an average penis
was five to seven inches, a fact
I learned upstairs in the stacks marked 610