Written
1988
I write of myself.
How brazen and bold.
Who will read with pleasure
to match that
of the writing?
If I write of myself,
is it caption or epithet?
And how am I
to write the end.
Is it too much
to ask
for you to close
the book
and turn out the light?
And if I write of myself,
who will protest
my picture of others?
Do I write
their caption or epithet?
But write I must.
Read if you choose
Notes
The poem was part of a letter to my folks which had much to do with what had happened to me during the week and it read as being so self centered that I wrote the poems to counter the ego bath. It was just for fun and the fact I never take myself as seriously as the lettrt would make it seem.