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