Roger, my less-than-enthusiastic opinion of this one poem has absolutely no effect on how wholeheartedly I admire the two other Hoagland poems (
"Don't Tell Anyone" and
"Romantic Moment') that I've posted in this thread, one of which I also posted at Eratosphere when he died a few years ago.
If poets aren't allowed to be assholes occasionally, I'm in deep, deep trouble.