It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.
... people get confidential at midnight.
Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.
God serves the choosy. They know what to want.
Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.