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A. R. ("Archie") Ammons (1926-2001) is the author of Garbage, Sphere, Brink Road and The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons. One of the "really short" poems gathered therein is "Their Sex Life":
One failure
On top of another
Ammons points out that the initial words of the two lines are capitalized, each standing for one person ("One" and "On").
Fucking Right
Nobody fucks anybody
who fucks anybody,
and anybody's a
nobody who fucks
anybody, still anybody
who fucks nobody's
a nobody, worse
than a nobody
who'd just as
soon fuck a
nobody as anybody:
on occasion, somebody
will fuck anybody,
nobody or not,
because when you
fuck anybody you
could be fucking
somebody as well
as nobody, though
there are fewer
somebodies out there,
I guess, than
nobodies: to be
somebody, you have
to be a
nobody and fuck
anybody till you
find a somebody:
when somebody fucks
somebody, it's right,
but if, having
tried hard, you
find neither nobody
nor somebody, fuck
off, you may
be bothering people.
from the Harvard Review, Spring 1998. Reprinted by permission of Phyllis Ammons.