Poem of the Day
That the president of this brief
from its authority of the moment
often refers to no goods
it doesn’t want in its society
and calls them its losers short
missing out. no goods
citizens. no goods who are poets
whom its nation’s own academy awards—
having not read any of the nation’s goods
described a ms. good as no good
should lead such nation to question
what good is its whatever does this as well
as murder literally as figuratively its people
itself under ice. then try to put it under ice?
Used with the permission of the author.
Ed Roberson
Ed Roberson was born in 1939 in Pittsburgh. He earned his BA at the University of Pittsburgh and later completed graduate work at Goddard College. His first collection of poetry, When Thy King Is a Boy (Pitt Poetry), was released in 1970, the same year in which he completed his undergraduate degree.