In our minds we think change is knowing.
We know something now—
And we are different from what we were.
Robert Lowell always knew
The poem he wrote would change him.
The professor asks: did this poem change you?
One change must cause a second change—or not.
Today you speak to me differently.
I guess you have changed a lot.
The theory is pleasure causes decay—
I have been punished since I sought pleasure all along.
Today, when I speak, you don’t listen to me.
But it doesn’t feel like I did anything wrong.