Nicholas Wright is a former student of Columbia University's MFA program in poetry. He has more poems than he knows what to do with...

Two Ways of Getting There

He tried to be good to the point of exhaustion,
left unmanaged,
became irritation,
became paranoia,
became hatred.

Lived only for himself,
completely unashamed,
made a joke of everything.
Sarcasm to the point of exhaustion.
Misunderstanding became irritation,
became paranoia,
became hatred.