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After that poem appeared
in an anthology,

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the anthology was reviewed
in Atlantic Monthly

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by a man called Richard Todd.

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And he said this
is a miserable--

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it's a Daniel Halpern anthology
called The American Poetry

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Anthology.

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He said, miserable
anthology, generally,

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and it's full of young poets
whining about their neuroses.

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For example, Michael
Dennis Browne

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has a poem called "Paranoia."

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And I've written a
poem now dedicated

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to Richard Todd's one line.

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It's called "Paranoia
Number Two."

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And it says, "I was only
pretending to be paranoid, OK?"

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