when meeting Gay Unknowns did you become a poet or was it long before reading Great Beings? when did your poetic heartbeats begin? was it when tiring of Old Scriptures & sermons of Jehovah's jealousy? as a secret, confident strategist you prepared manifestos over decades & among the elysium of Ameri can lite rat i you urge us to be bold with words & remember poetry has a magic which which vitriol, aqua fortis, or cinnabar can't defile -