I didn't say the things it says I said.
We didn't do the things it says we did,
and if it says we did, I say it's lying
because it also says it caught me lying
when there's no record of the things I said,
and no one witnessed anything we did.
I had my reasons for the things I did.
Everyone twists my words and says I'm lying.
You can't believe a single word that's said.
I didn't say I said I never lied.
Anna M. Evans’ poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, American Arts Quarterly, and 32 Poems. She gained her MFA from Bennington College and is the Editor of the Raintown Review. Recipient of Fellowships from the MacDowell Artists' Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and winner of the 2012 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers' Choice Award, she currently teaches at West Windsor Art Center and Rowan College at Burlington County. Her new collection Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic is out now from Able Muse Press, and her sonnet collection Sisters & Courtesans is available from White Violet Press.