Weird Desires

[Roy Hobbs]

Dr. Johnson said omce
(he may have said it more than once),
"I cause laughter, but do not join it."

In this poem there is no laughter to join--
mirth falls away in this staged drama
brought to our attention by another
drama (call it a meta-drama), that, of
the narrator.

Here, something causes our relinquishing
of judgement upon the agents protrayed,
and the poet(not the narrator) joins us.

Delighted,
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