" After Drinking All Night with a Friend
We Go Out in a Boat
to See Who Can Write the Best Poem "

Being already in Cathay
I would have stopped right there.
Another word could only sink the boat
(it did).

Am I then lacking in enterprise?

No, I am full of fun.

I could be satisfied
to call a poem
The Assistant Person ,
for example,
and let anybody who
can leap to attention
fill in the rest
but the academicians
would not be able
to stand the uncertainty.