But let’s take the poet in best faith.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
PRINCE-TOUMS* FOR 1999: AUTOMATIC
A-U-T-O-matic as the might of a 17-year-old
/ Becomes reduced to hissing.
Attempt to Explain How Dysphoria Feels Using Ripley’s Believe It or Not
My eyes would trace / each scale.
Feature: Mitchell L. H. Douglas
Sorry, / a friend died / of an overdose—heroin— /
& poetry class is no place / for an outburst.