12/03/2009

I was Lucifer, lost
Odysseus.



Now,
I, I, I



waste my life
in Pine Island, Minnesota,



fuck with the mailman
at midnight.



With you,
Mr. Hart, I find myself



still bored.

BIO:

John Hart has had poems appear in the Antioch Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Verse Daily. He has poems forthcoming in Grist, Hopkins Review, and New South.