Interesting that Nick and Jean assumed that my “My Dilemma” poem with its constant refrain of “no one loves me” was necessarily a personal expression.

In fact it was a formal exercise, an experiment, in emotional manipulation! And it is wholly googled!

It’s not that I don’t sometimes feel that way, or that the occasion of composing (I can’t really say “writing”) the poem did not arise from an attempt to banish that feeling by subli-mocking it in what I thought was a rather amusing fashion. I simply did not mean it as an easy “expression.”

Hence the heading: is this poem emotional or formal. Point being, why, it’s both!!