Too odd ode
  said ode sad
  toad add odd
  sod sat to ate
  his gills were problematic
  this used to be a different place
  made of Saturday pirogies
  and big pigs and
  cows now on she
  snow blower, add
  flown as a sound
  meower second
  hour flip through
  not go out with rising
  horns which Vlad
  will cherish & love
  when I started growing blonde
  as a soldier
  amputated by war
  unwanted & friendless
  cherishes his last
  remaining leg
  I cherish what passes
  lovingly from my hands
  effortlessly
 

         �Lee Ann Brown, Laynie Browne, Douglas Rothschild,
        Anselm Berrigan, Lisa Jarnot, Bill Luoma, Drew Gardner
        April 2, 1997   first poem of the Optionists