- Diplomacy
Lorenzo Thomas, Poet: A Special Section
Tonight, I count my sins An exercise The kind of thing The most unwinnable of games A solitary state of mind Devises. Nothing to do With conscience or contrite Renunciation
Simply to fill up time And block ideas That might just generate Additional complaints
Nothing is gained, perhaps Except to understand The eye-piercing cologne men wear To transact filthy business
Lorenzo Thomas teaches American Literature at the University of Houston-Downtown. There Are Witnesses / Es Gibt Zeugen (1996) is a bi-lingual edition of his recent poems published in Germany. He is the editor of Sing the Sun Up: Creative Writing Ideas from African American Literature (Teachers & Writers, 1998) and author of Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th Century American Poetry, a critical study forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press.