The poem—in the middle
has been there
since high school—
it knows quite
a rather
impressive little
and means
exactly—the halfway-
decent
and clean things it says.
On the other hand—
the one
on the far end
probably contains it all—but seems
to say
what it means
with unbecoming gravity
and much
too much—finality.
Then there's
that poem—up closest to you;
soiled—it seems
to know
that it knows
the little
dull
grubby
things that it knows—but thankfully
it chose—
to lie—and lie lots!
and it hopes
to high hell—that you'll
pick up on it.
