I am not the I
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A Poet’s Self-Defence (or I am Not the I)
I am NOT the ‘I’ in these poems. ٠I am not the ‘I’ who might use crude language, Or fail to dot my ‘I’s I am not the ‘she’, or the ‘he’ And have no paranoid illusions regarding ‘they’. ٠I am NOT the ‘I’ who pines for lost lovers Nor the ‘I’ who walks out naked into the moonlight. I am not the ‘I’ who cries out in rage Or the one gone insane To the drip drop of thoughts on a page. Not the one enticing young virgins down the lane Or the New Age Eve kicking the balls of irascible men. I am not the chain smoker of metaphors, condoning bad habits. I do not take drugs, or hang out with thugs on city streets. I am also not the one pathetically sweet Or the ‘I’ with a voracious sexual appetite. ٠I do not have a fetish for guns or web cams or fast cars. I am not necessarily the anorexic ‘I’ with the starving poet fantasy The unwritten novel, the uncontrollable kids The ex-lover, or the huge debt. ٠I am not the ‘I’ in these poems. I am merely a figure of speech A voice in a poem – the unwritten ‘I’ who writes. © Deb Matthews-Zott
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