Saturday, May 31, 2014

BOBBY BYRD ~













You don't go wrong with Bobby Byrd




Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary
Bobby Byrd
Cinco Puntos Press, 2014
701 Texas Avenue
El Paso, Texas
79901




EDITOR


On page 84 of Bobby Byrd's new book of poems

Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary

 
I notice while reading a poem


about George Bush that Bobby


spells the name of Katharine Hepburn


as "Kathyrn Hepburn" —


he does it not once, but twice


I say to myself, "Now what's going on here?"


I'm sure but I google anyway because I can


and sure enough I'm right and Bobby is wrong


but I don't plan to say a word to him


or else he'll think I think his book is wrong


and all this book is is right



[ BA ]