Poetry in Pros

by Brett Ballantini
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
one against whom there was no official complaint,
and all the reports on his conduct agree
that, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint
–W.H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” (1940)
After contributing consistently here for a couple of months and reading for much longer than that, it seems it’s long since past time to come out of the closet.