As/Is







1.23.2005


bumptious histrionics


I had come to To
ronto to
study
bowdlerized Napoleon.
I was attracted
by his elevation, his squandering
of soul.
I was jubilant
and stayed up late reading,
a connoisseur
of bumptious histrionics
and intellectually ambitious evenings.
Politics
entertainingly imparted.