QUOTE : That inescapable animal walks with me,<br />Has followed me since the black womb held, <br />Moves where I move, distorting my gesture, <br />A caricature, a swollen shadow,<br />A stupid clown of the spirit’s motive, <br />Perplexes and affronts with his own darkness, <br />The secret life of belly and bone,<br />Opaque, too near, my private, yet unknown, <br />Stretches to embrace the very dear<br />With whom I would walk without him near, <br />Touches her grossly, although a word<br />Would bare my heart and make me clear, <br />Stumbles, flounders, and strives to be fed <br />Dragging me with him in his mouthing care, <br />Amid the hundred million of his kind, <br />The scrimmage of appetite everywhere.