THIS IS A LOVE POEM

picture a man narrating this poem

picture a man typing this final draft

picture the man they speak of
who is almost them

picture a man who writes
(myself)
a pose or the real thing

-bpNichol

The poem points to the poem, the ‘i’ points to the genre of autobiography, the ‘you’ points to the reader and a friendship with bpNichol points to language and the experience of reading.