Poems of the Week

The Mane Event

by Steven Kent

“”Boxer Jarrell Miller has hairpiece punched off in split-decision victory”
—The New York Times’ “The Athletic”

A thrilling night:
A jab! A slug!
But then, mid-fight,
He lost his rug,

And yet with blows
He triumphed there
(Though by a nose,
Not by a hair).

How very nice
To win this way—
So small, the price
He had toupee.