I do not write in 'drafts.' I just continue to write or tinker on the same poem until I can't anymore. There are small line differences, however, and sometimes major ones.
I was interested in this auratic, definitely apocryphal idea of an earth-shattering text or event. While 'reform' sometimes implies social progress, this certainly was not the case for the Reformation, which I understand more as a rearrangement of control, a reorganization of power relations.
I used the form of these theses as a mantle for my writing, sheltering the affects of my daily life under this formal mantle of historical grandiosity.
This particular poem happened after visiting New York City with my boyfriend, Johannes-that's where the title 'Metropolitan' comes from.
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