Feedback<\/p>\n
Because what isn\u2019t<\/p>\n
Fed back? A time and place<\/p>\n
For everything, my mother said,<\/p>\n
But everything is A time, a place,<\/p>\n
If you know to trace.<\/p>\n
I carry my own face<\/p>\n
And my mother\u2019s,<\/p>\n
And my father\u2019s<\/p>\n
Graceless shape; Both are overlaid.<\/p>\n
A boy, I tried to rail against<\/p>\n
The sect of men Who pick up rage but fell<\/p>\n
Among the ranks anyway.<\/p>\n
A boy, I was made<\/p>\n
Effective in a lowly way, a ditch<\/p>\n
In which this country\u2019s scat<\/p>\n
Falls fat.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019ve seen the image<\/p>\n
Become word, the word<\/p>\n
Become image again, \u201cIn the beginning\u201d seems A useless trope.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t speak to me of ends.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve seen the legislated ditch<\/p>\n
In which you\u2019ve dropped<\/p>\n
The dispossessed and young, hoping<\/p>\n
We\u2019d choke on our own<\/p>\n
Mass. Why would you think that<\/p>\n
Would last? Grown, we\u2019ve come<\/p>\n
Into our own, we\u2019ve seen it all<\/p>\n
Must be overthrown\u2014<\/p>\n
We, the people, the rank, the poor Muscled things<\/p>\n
The ditch spits back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[13],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-1","category-new-satisfying-poems","tag-new-poetry"],"yoast_head":"\n