Poetry. At turns humorous and profound, this collection spans Kennedy's writing career from 1955 to date. It contains 334 brief poems: lyrics and story poems, epigrams, epitaphs, haiku, poems of no special kind; on the themes of sex, the ages of man, poets, and more. A sample, "Ars Poetica," goes: "The goose that laid the golden egg Died looking up at her crotch To find out how her sphincter worked. Would you lay well? Don't watch."