Why I Write, Part x+130: I'm So Changeable!

In poems I live fractions of a hundred other lives.

It's the only way to do it without changing all the time

Or having to skin myself, wear new brains and masks –

Without even having to learn how to act.

I can be young, old, kind, scared or aggressive,

Know all the right lines, or not how to address it.

I can be your faithful, unshameable fool

Or have no intentions of that sort toward you.

Of course, to play at reliable or more than base is ludicrous,

and, of course, that's entirely the fun of it.