“Mister Doom,” by Maurice Manning

MFA faculty member Maurice Manning recently had five poems featured in A New Decameron. Read an excerpt of “Mister Doom” below:

Mister Doom

There was a man named Mister Doom,
a teacher we had to answer twice
and very slowly because he was deaf
and only once reading our lips
was never enough to be sure he heard
us right, so we had to answer twice.
The Magna Carta.  The Magna Carta,
I remember echoing myself.

Read the rest of this poem (and four others) here: https://www.anewdecameron.com/stories/maurice-manning