My poems seem to
change in the summer
Ignoring me even
more than usual.
Come winter,
Raskalnikov and Little Nell
Will be after me to
write something for them
Gloomy, deep; poems
you can hit with a mallet
And leave no crack,
no chip, no dent.
(You there – trying
to recall where you left
Your mallet – put
the thought aside.)
The hot weather
wants airy poems, with holes
For the wind to blow
through, and hinges
So they can be put
away when it starts raining.
I assume Little Nell
and Raskalnikov
Are on vacation now; lying on some beach, talking
About whether Daniel Quilp and Sonia Marmeladov
Might be just right for each other.
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