Bring To Me, It Said, Continual Proof

Although I Know It's Unfair, I Reveal Myself One Mask At A Time.

I've Tried To Become Someone Else For A While, Only To Discover That He, Too, Was Me.

When I Stop Becoming, That's When I Worry.

Poetry Does So Many Different Things, It's Difficult To Say Anything Definitive About Its Role, Which Of Course Varies From Culture To Culture. It Can Range From Being Stories Of The Tribe To The Private Lyric, To Being As W.h. Auden Said "the Clear Expression Of Mixed Feelings" To Nonsense Verse.

Now And Again I Feel The Astonishment Of Being Alive Like This, In This Body.