Six Words
yes no maybe sometimes always never Never? Yes. Always? No. Sometimes? Maybe— maybe never sometimes. Yes— no always: always maybe. No— never yes. Sometimes, sometimes (always) yes. Maybe never . . . No, no— sometimes. Never. Always? Maybe. Yes— yes no maybe sometimes always never.
Credit
Copyright © 2003 by Lloyd Schwartz. First published in Ploughshares, Spring 2003 and reprinted in How to Eat a Poem (Dover Publications, 2006). Appears courtesy of the author.
Author
Lloyd Schwartz
Schwartz’s most recent book of poetry is Little Kisses (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He was named the Poet Laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts in 2019. In 2021, Schwartz received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
Date Published
01/01/2003