Sing my one song about you to the void;

And make the angels horribly annoyed.

ALWAYS THE SONNETTEER

Though I were old and mad and poor and dumb,

And your name were a blasphemy to say

For which men came and beat me, every day,

With seven-foot bull-hide whips—yet should they come,

Red smiles upon them, since I had no tongue,

And gasp with horror ... at black ant platoons

Wheeling in ordered state to form the runes,