Although I Know It's Unfair, I Reveal

Bring To Me, It Said, Continual Proof / You've Been Alive.

I’ve Had It With All Stingy-hearted Sons Of Bitches. A Heart Is To Be Spent.

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

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.

A True Inner World Is Often Revealed By Style And Sensibility As Much As By What Appears To Be Confession.