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.

Verve Is to Élan What Kissing Is to Kissing Longer

by Bob Hicok

Unto my soul, I wear a crown of Legos
you can’t see.
I am the king of doing wheelies
on the Stingray bicycle of my mind
while breaking rocks beside you
and every other convict
in sales. Sure, what kind of royalty
burps root beer out his nose?

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