I Make Myself Up From Everything I

I Love What's Left After Love Has Been Tested.

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

I’ve Had It With All Stingy-hearted Sons Of Bitches. A Heart Is To Be Spent.

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

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.