ADILLA LOPES

At Boston university
sat in classes
of Anne Sextant
who mocked degrees
who was hired
to teach poetry
an impossible task
even for an oral freak
like Homer
much easier
than teaching my kid
how to do potty
an impossible task
insisting on the body
of work output
the put out guys
attempted after practice
would not amount
to a Boston hill of baked beans
and always after class
had her unique laughter
of poking fun
but no one
knew whom she was after,
even imitating Sylvia Plath
in the clumsy way
of her suburban suicidal death
from her own classy driveway
rather than the historical
German oven Sylvia
prepared mankind for,
not even giving a call to
Maxine Kumin up in Vermont
with a hint of school preparation
who would have an accident
on her equestrian horse ride
galloping for her own reputation,
Anne could not be an original
from any incident ,antecedent
or as a descendant like Lowell
nor yet a dependent addict
in the twelve step
bound for her own Hell.