Outliers
Nobody fucks like we do.
You once said we were sexually incompatible
because I liked to cum in the morning,
while you liked to cum at night.
You reprimand me when I leave the windows open
and the neighbors can hear your orgasm howls.
I leave them open anyway.
Whidbey. Orcas. Vancouver. Manhattan…
We log the islands where we did it.
We recite the list.
The algorithm asked me how many
sexual partners I’d had—
I compiled the list:
Shana Mary Ingrid Jeanne alabama girl…
I showed you the list.
You went quiet.
I’m listening to John M. Gottman,
Ph.D.
The Four Horsemen. Bids. Repair. The Intervention.
OK.
Let’s make it a threesome.
Kent Koprowicz is a poet and biostatistician based in Seattle, Washington. He is at work on his first collection, The Model Had Been Misspecified, which borrows the vocabulary of clinical trials and survival analysis — hazard models, censored observations, imputation, residuals — as structural scaffolding for poems about elegy, love, and the Pacific Northwest landscape. The manuscript is organized in four sections mirroring the arc of a clinical trial: Baseline Characteristics, Visualization, Analysis, and Results.
His work has appeared in Thin Skin and Pfeilstorch Fiction, alongside brief + incorrect and Bloodroot Poetry Journal.
He studies at Hugo House in Seattle, where he is a member and reads regularly in the Works in Progress series. By day, he works as a biostatistician, applying the same instinct for pattern, uncertainty, and misspecified models to pharmaceutical data instead of words.