"Blaise of Glory" and "Shot in the Foot"

Blaise of Glory

He will not go quietly,

this man who refuses

to disappear into the crowd.

He holds forth, finger jabbing

at a flaccid argument

like the sting-and-float

of a boxer dancing a jig

around a ring. Having given

his shirt away,

he is stripped down to the essentials:

a man and his facts, a meteor

shattering into little stars

plunging to earth like missiles.

Shot in the Foot

I amb

I am

I amble

I amm

I amm

I ample

I ammm

I amplify

I am

an ample man

I am I am

an ambling man

I man up

I am a man