Bob Hicok is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Sex & Love &, Hold, and Red Rover, Red Rover (Copper Canyon Press, 2021). Hicok received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, as well as eight Pushcart Prizes. He is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech.

Unmedicated Self-Portrait

by Bob Hicok

My insomnia’s going steady with Bruce Willis.
In more than one movie he mocks himself
in other movies. I enjoy being in on the joke,
feeling part of an economy that is almost
genetic in its replication of patterns.

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