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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO GERTRUDE STEIN PITEOUSLY, by IRENE SUTTON
First Line: If you had not been I would have done
Last Line: I will say
Subject(s): Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)
First Line: If you had not been I would have done
Last Line: I will say
Subject(s): Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)
if you had not been i would have done
does it mean because you have been i can not do so
no
i will do though you did and because i am i
and the things that happen to me
are of me and they can not be
of anyone else -- not in just that way
even though you knew without their happening to you
what their happening would do
to a person
still they happened to me and so
i will say
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