If you were here today,What would you do? What would you say?
Would you claim, “That rhyme is is pretty insipid;
you could do much better, if you put some effort into it.
I’m just sayin’.”
Yeah, that probably seems like your style.

I guess it depends on which you would be coming back.
The last you
or the you who looms largest in memory
who spent most time in my formative structure.
Which do you suppose would rise again:
the one most recently here
or the one that had been there from the start?

I’d ask you
but of course…

I wonder
if I play a similar role
– both perhaps
(a last, amorphous shape
and an earlier sharply defined blade) –
for others.

Perhaps this is not
how I want to be wondered about.