The definition was modified
by things unable to define
and this is how they defined my poetry.
I was a radical in those days.
I couldn’t have been more direct
in my thinking, but poetry sidetracked me for hours
and the working class felt this in its wages.
Poetry reduced everything to this.
Innovation bowed before the kiss.
Indirection dominated until the definition
began to define itself.
Thank God I had a certain amount of agency and lived.
There is a rumor that something happened between us
and that is enough.