I Lisp'd in Numbers
The novelist, certain of immortality,
Undergirds his work with versions of myth.
The epigrammatist, knowing that he writes in snow,
Depends on the power only of his own pith.

Boredom: Porno
Though not to watch I am admonished
Nevertheless when I do I am astonished
At how really few are the ways that flesh
Can be made to mingle, merge, and mesh.

Claims Adjustment
That a slightly overweight insurance
Executive with thinning white hair
Who did most of his living in a quiet room
In a comfortably upper middle class house
In a small inland Connecticut city
Contemplating the age-old philosophical
Question of "The One and the Various"

Should come to become considered his century's
Most important American poet is exactly the kind
Of ironic truth that a slightly overweight
Insurance executive with thinning white hair
Would, in his quiet room in a comfortably upper
Middle class house in a small inland
Connecticut city, find precisely hilarious.