i. (false poem of William Carlos Williams) 

Unable to find 
a certain poem
written in youth and 

doubtless superior in
technique to all 
subsequently composed 

I despaired as 
about my feet swarmed
the red, inedible ants.   
 

ii. (inane anecdote)  

In 
high school I shot a 
film

"To be Hungry is to be 
Great"
(title from William Carlos

Williams)
in which a dog runs
past a 

bookcase, in the back
yard,
incongruous objects on its 

shelves,
to music of Thelonius
Monk.