Round 48

Yusef: "Asparagus" by Marilyn Nelson

Bob: "Sunday Night" by Maggie Nelson

Marilyn:

First cook it in its own delicious steam,
sauté breadcrumbs in butter separately,
combine, eat slowly . . .

Maggie:

Or why not make a malt of it? It's
virtually the same thing as a milkshake

but with powder.

Marilyn N's eminently dislikeable sonnet about eating asparagus loses to Maggie N's disjointed and amusing "Sunday Night," first published in The Hat. I'm getting a sense of what the best journals are, "Hambone" and "The Hat" among others.

After 48

14-26-8

Will Yusef beat the spread? He was at least a thirty point underdog going in . . .