Dovina23 May 2005
Iâm sorry for referring to you as a woman in some of my comments. Donât know where I got that.
The poem is all one sentence, hence the âandââs connecting its parts, and the ? at the end.
I donât know why you think âsensible, respectful, funâ is an explicit line. They were his words while I leaned back against him and he talked of my connection with the women in my ancestry while we looked at the city hall which my great grandfather promoted during his service to the city in 1890. The man I was with likened me to my great grandmother in such a historically compelling way that I almost could not stand.