"Ran afoul my nature to spend some time
in prison. To think
                                on what I'd done:

Fish are swimming at ease—
         this is the happiness of fish.
                  But the sage kings are dead

A canvas we cannot stretch across the frame
nor staple down to fact: a ladder leaning

against an awning, workers pitching tar

I knew the length of an average penis
   was five to seven inches, a fact
I learned upstairs in the stacks marked 610