It Is Sweet and Fitting John Mann He decides to join up. Age notrelevant this time. They toldhim somebody’s butt neededkicking. He is given a call-back number, a couple of bagsof pinto beans. They will send him west and north. Hisnickname will be Mr. Compass.Declarative sentences onlyneed apply. Discharge apossibility. He is hungry.All these years a gnawing.Look at the religious onesat the side of the roadfilling their sacks with anger.Dogs have bigger hearts. John Mann has had poems published in many literary journals. He won a poetry fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council in 2002. His play, Mass Destruction, Weapons Of, was produced by the New World Arts Theatre in Goshen, Indiana, in 2004. Finishing Line Press published Wyoming, a chapbook of poems, in 2008. He was a resident fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2008. “It Is Sweet and Fitting” appears in our Spring 2010 issue.