6). Influence

The writer didn't consider an influence that wasn't to the year.
So you get a narrative from a specific type of contact.
It isn't as usual for an adult to be the same away from career after getting into the twenties;
It's possible, but you start finding circumstance and the external instead of a return.

Next year, I guess;
The line of sight being inclusive, with the public going through.
Your life is somewhere else every year without that.

About my friends and their lives and careers.
In this book, I'm an exponent of here.
School paper themes instead of idealized;
You could have written a day-by-day dialogue.
I was surprised; they had other ideas about it.
I'd have to say, add them in, instead.

I was entirely outside of the sphere of conversation.
Did they talk about the entire weekend from when they arrived?
We hardly talked or carried on a conversation.
They were below the float line at these things.
But very enthusiastic.
Going back you left early.
I was almost understated because the radio was on.


"Influence," poem six of "Lettersongs," unpublished work © 2008, Lisa Page Weil.  All rights reserved.