i dont write poems about people

eh. please dont write me/text me/call me after i write a poem and ask if its about you. (and no, this is not even just about the one person who did it tonight, so…dont do it yet again!) please dont read my poems and get happy sad mad that they are about you. my poems are rarely ever about a “person” anymore. they are about an ever evolving conversation between two shapes. mychangingself and mychangingexperience of Other. they wrap together you and her and him and them and me and my poems are not about any person in the end, they are about an idea, or an experience or an overall philosophy on a way of being or not being and they are about me. they are reborn as the shapes change and so the conversation changes, the lessons are edited and presented in the form of a new poem or new song. i know people will continue to personalize them and react. it can’t be helped. but really, it’s not about you.