<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-style: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica">3 Gentlemen from Hell</font></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;"><span class=""></span><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">3 gentlemen from hell arrive</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">at my door. They are looking</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">for poets to man the university</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">teaching positions, to conduct</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">seminars and workshops which</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">seduce the young into believing</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">they want to write and have a </font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">talent to do so.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">They are fat and wear 3-piece suits,</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">these gentlemen from hell. They</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">have closely trimmed beards and</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">gold phi-beta keys dangle over the</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">swollen burial mounds of their</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">bellies. They offer small sums of</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">money and the possibility of tenure.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">In return I must write acceptably,</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">poems that do not say fuck or shit,</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">which can be printed in journals</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">thick with these university poets</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">and their poems which not only</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">smell like but are full of.......well</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">you know what I mean. In return,</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">these gentlemen offer an easy road</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">for art, a comfortable place to compose</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">dry, witless, brain dead imitations</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">of the witless dead in their anthologies.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">They want me to beguile the young,</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">to lie to them and cheat their hearts</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">until they qualify for an MFA and can</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">go forth themselves, can secure tenure</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">and reproduce their kind.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;">I invite the 3 in; we haggle over salary.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Helvetica" style="font-style: normal;"> - Red Hawk</font></div><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>