POETRY Nancy Duci Denofio

TO BOB DYLAN FROM ME

I don’t want to experiment or inventory
or participate with your mind -
It’s my wishful thinking
no doctor knows the scores
or did they read all 32 - volumes

however negative or positive -
since it’s a social situation
needing more then one discussion -
because your history of anxiety
and your sensitivity would cause
you - an acute – stress - disorder. . .

Contrary to the negative, however -
positive - due to – desire, you want
it to be true. . .after our discussion
one reason you emerged - 32 volumes
inaccurately characterized
reflected on reaction suggests
evaluations – to provide
harmonius music

however - negative or positive
since it’s a social situation - needing
more then one discussion because
of your anxiety - your sensitivity
would cause an acute stress disorder

and, I don’t want to experiment
or inventory, or participate
with your mind. . . or send you
home and stamp you cured

or distinguish your potential
you’re afraid to be examined
or designed or recognized –
or would I attempt to categorize
you

correctly – fearful of a long acting
medication - startle your
creativity to cause a brief image
to get stuck inside your head,
disrupt the external – clinical situation
and mask your desire –

but with your history of anxiety
your sensitivity – it would cause you
an acute stress disorder. . .
so you get stuck in the external –
clinical situation masked
as desire and you muscles burst
with wanting some damn
explanation for a short interval
of happy - knowing damn well your
sensitivity and longing is a sign of
creativity within the hemispheres of
your brain.