But For Lincoln Poem by Douglas Scotney

Your normal novel with a major character
nude with an erection throughout
is a porno.
Not 'Lincoln in the Bardo'.

He's like that,
because his last living thought
determined what he looked like in Bardo,
a transit zone in which he's stuck.

hans vollman, meaning 'full man',
is aka Sheep-Dumpling
and Kugel, meaning 'ball'
and 'as round as he's tall'.

Another major character
is poor dead William Lincoln,
who died aged 11 in '62,
leaving Abe bereft.

Because of the kid and Kugel,
the writer could have been silly,
and for 'Lincoln' in the title
put 'Willie'.