Oh Abstractions Are Just Abstract Until They

Oh Abstractions Are Just Abstract Until They Have An Ache In Them.

Isn't There A Curious Elegance In How One Moment Passes Into Another?

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

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

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.