The poster with my picture on it
Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office.

I stand by it hoping to be recognized
Posing first full face and then profile

But everbody passes by and I have to admit
The photograph was taken some years ago.

I was unwanted then and I'm unwanted now
Ah guess ah'll go up echo mountain and crah.

I wish someone would find my fingerprints somewhere
Maybe on a corpse and say, You're it.

Description: Male, reasonably so
White, but not lily-white and usually deep-red

Thirty-fivish, and looks it lately
Five-feet-nine and one-hundred-thirty pounds: no physique

Black hair going gray, hairline receding fast
What used to be curly, now fuzzy

Brown eyes starey under beetling brow
Mole on chin, probably will become a wen

It is perfectly obvious that he was not popular at school
No good at baseball, and wet his bed.

His aliases tell his story: Dumbell, Good-for-nothing,
Jewboy, Fieldinsky, Skinny, Fierce Face, Greaseball, Sissy.

Warning: This man is not dangerous, answers to any name
Responds to love, don't call him or he will come.

The free-verse lyrical poem above is about a desperately lonely man. He has gone unnoticed for most, if not all, of his life. In the beginning of the poem, he poses next to a picture of himself, which was taken many years earlier, in the Post Office. He is a missing person, and he wishes that someone would recognize him and proclaim him found. Unfortunately, he is unwanted; no one wants to claim him, or even acknowledge his existence. The author proceeds to describe his physique in a negative manner. Since we have no other representation of how he looks, we must assume that he looks exactly how he describes himself. Even though I suspect that this description is an exaggeration, it is clear to see that his pessimistic demeanor would turn people away. He talks of his childhood briefly, and it is obvious that he was not a happy child. The last stanza makes it clear that he is not a dangerous person, but he lists no positive traits, either. The author uses such literary devices as alliteration, assonance, repitition, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, parallel structure, oxymoron, imagery, metaphor, and rhyme.