The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.

Is there a term that one might use rather than say that one is homosexual? Is there a different physical gender and symbolic dimension? I'm thinking of Adrienne Rich's notion of the lesbian spectrum. It's not as if sexual identity is binary: one must be either homo or hetero.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

Working women went through a time when they believed that.