Friday, December 17, 2021

READER

At an imaginary university a hypothetical student

Has begun, is deeply into, has decided not to start 

An intensive study of my oeuvre. In an attempt to learn

Something, Sparafucile the assassin has been contacted 

Through a fictional room-mate's ouija board.

The student asks how Sparafucile and I met

And whether he, at least, likes the poems

I write about him. Unfortunately, he's never looked at them;

But dimly remembers reading and not much liking

A long something that involved Verlaine's unborn brothers

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