{
  "author": "<NAME>",
  "classification": "",
  "keywords": [],
  "period": "",
  "reference": "http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/249502",
  "region": "",
  "text": [
    "You may know me, watchful one, by my alias",
    "Old Man, Buccaneer, Water Strider, Bilious",
    "Busted Monometer of Planetary Celsius.",
    "No? Go fuck yourself. I\u2019m listening to Delius,",
    "\u201cOn Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring,\u201d envious",
    "Of ovenbirds, swallows, swifts, clamorous canaries; furious",
    "At the soft-bedded shale and its gaseous",
    "Nonlethal vapors. I\u2019m not laughing. I\u2019m hilarious.",
    "I have a problem,",
    "does,",
    "do, you, him, I, us,",
    "All creatures craven and judicious",
    "Having departed in kayaks and fuming Kias.",
    "Has it not been foretold, Leviticus, lascivious",
    "One? \u2014 The way you bade us kneel, twisted like a M\u00f6bius",
    "Belt, before insinuating your noxious",
    "Nectar \u2014 omnivorous, odoriferous, officious",
    "Orifice-filler, you. In a previous",
    "Proxy you descended, empty charioteer, to query us",
    "About our outerwear\u2019s whereabouts. Think on it, Rufous-",
    "Headed woodpecker, use your barbed brain, be suspicious",
    "Of high motives as you crown yourself on the dead tree as",
    "Who comes to your rescue? Not I. Unconscious",
    "Tremors, climbing the coils of the virtuous",
    "Time-worn wooden flesh, leave me be. \u201cWitty Is",
    "As Witty Does,\u201d sings the sorry fellow atop his eggs. Hush.",
    "He\u2019ll sit through anything. As in days of yore, he is",
    "Blooming, blazing, withering with his prize zinnias."
  ],
  "title": "Climax Change",
  "year": ""
}