Fits of Concision: Collected Poems of Six or Fewer Lines

Poetry. At turns humorous and profound, this collection spans Kennedy's writing career from 1955 to date. It contains 334 brief poems: lyrics and story poems, epigrams, epitaphs, haiku, poems of no special kind; on the themes of sex, the ages of man, poets, and more.

A sample, "Ars Poetica," goes:

"The goose that laid the golden egg
Died looking up at her crotch
To find out how her sphincter worked.
Would you lay well? Don't watch."