• Purchase
Witness Magazine
  • Saṃsāra
  • Issues
    • Current Issue
    • Archive
      • Past Issues
      • Fiction
      • Nonfiction
      • Poetry
      • Photography
  • Order/Subscribe
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
  • Submit
  • Search

To Joseph Addison Who I’ve Barely Read

By Adam Strauss
Poetry•Vol. XXIV No. 2 (Summer 2011)

Why lampoon larboard? It’s a lovely word; it doesn’t fatally lodge—well, colonialism, OK, anyway, the point is I like it; is it low self-esteem, posturing, or plain sense makes me find that reason inadequate?

In the 7th century, the 11th, 16th, 19th, 20th, 21st: blossoms—believing barbarism’s made True when made practice—constitutes the constitution if God is just you’ll be punished; I’ve gotten lost in the pleasure of writing and written

Thoughts I’m unsure I believe; I want to admit to error, to emphasize mazy: straight lines miss almost all the points. Prose which is strictly speaking seems unpleasant as an immediate prospect unlike chicken or a chick flick—big dick to

Tastily tastefully suck not days or seconds later seems succumbed to. I’m sure there’re Beverly Hills babes who are happy not horror-stricken to spend the day with dirt paths, shit, cheeps of chicks and cute hicks; one eyes me in my imagination, says “howdy.”

Adam Strauss
Adam Strauss has one full-length poetry collection, For Days, out with BlazeVox, and poems which appear in Verse and Superstition Review. His poems in this issue are from a manuscript titled Braided Sand.

Mailing List

Sign up for the Witness email newsletter.



Order & Subscribe

Subscribe to Witness magazine or order individual issues.

Purchase

Submit Your Work

Entries accepted in the fall for the print issue. Check for online issue dates in the link below.

Learn More

© 2006-2020 Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy

  • The Black Mountain Institute
  • UNLV
  • Submit
  • Subscribe
  • Order Issues
  • Contact Us