Sometimes he would try to write a poem
and what he wanted to do was scribble circles
down one side of the page and up the other
and once he did but he knew it wasn’t a poem
although there were those who would have called it one
assuming of course that it was done sincerely.
Not wanting to waste the paper or the time
and having a dean impressed by anything
he titled it and signed it and sent it off
and there it was in the Golden Rule Review,
“Poem in Sincere Circles.” It was sincere.
A few months later it got anthologized.
He sits at his desk devising variations,
starting in the center of the page,
circles in circles with small symbols in them.
He publishes everywhere and gets letters
asking for explanations he never gives.
Also he never gives readings anymore.
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