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Katie, THANK YOU for your posting about...posting. I am not one of those people who enjoys trying to catch all my thoughts and explain them in person, but I would rather do it in person than in any other way--the audience is too broad and unresponsive elsewhere.

One of the reasons I am posting so late is because I don't know what to say, or if I'm entitled to say it. I didn't love see, minotaur. Before I meet Jessy, I feel as though I am not allowed to try to make sense of the speaker. Mostly because I am pissed that the poem basically assumed I would/could/refused to understand the person writing it.

I understand, Jessy, that you must be more pissed off than I can ever be for not finding the language to explain yourself, but how can you be angry with the audience for not seeing you in your writing if you don't see yourself?

Here's a thought: instead of using third person pronouns, why not make them all second person, and invite the person to respond?