Selected Aphorisms #25

The twenty-fifth installment in our very literary new series.

Kenneth Koch, that great Enthusiast, once said that “Kenneth” was his favorite word to see in a poem. It makes sense: to see our own name rendered in print is surely a great pleasure. Still, an equal pleasure – for me, at least – would be to see a poem with the names of anyone on my fantasy team. “Ryan Doumit, Mike Aviles, Jose Arredondo”: you ask me, that’s on par with “April is the cruelest month” as far as memorable first lines of the last hundred or so years.