David Lee was named the first Poet Laureate of Utah in 1997, and he has also received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. His work draws on a rich experience that includes seminary study, boxing, raising hogs, and becoming the only white athlete to play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars. Retired from Southern Utah University, where he taught for more than three decades, Lee divides his time among Oregon, Nevada, and Utah.

Higher Authority

by David Lee

      O Hell! what do mine eyes with grief behold?
      —Paradise Lost, book 4, line 358

1.

What are you doing!

Oh god
Oh shit
Jimmy Don who is that in my
              Kim Pierce! What are you
I can explain Missus Strachioner
No you can’t
Oh god
Young lady you get out of my bedroom
Baby, I can
Don’t you Baby me Get out of my bed
              that piece of flesh you’re with is a high school student,

              a minor

              you should be really Really ashamed of yourself
              you concubine chasing scum sucker child molesting

              snotty nosed Poland China boar hog

              I don’t want to ever see you again
People on couch
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