DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Myth Dispelled" by Adam Possner Originally read: January 8, 2013 More information about the Poet: Adam Possner I think the poem depends on the "him/you" on being a patient...or maybe not.  For funsies, the poem could be referring to the speaker himself debating his/her scientific/spiritual self with the speaker being more cynical about the cynical at the end.  Also for funsies the speaker could use "you" as referring to the audience, but then that places the audience in the weird position: feeling superior for knowing better, feeling inferior for not knowing exactly how vaccines work and the speaker having to explain them.  However, for my reading, I'm going to be reading the poem as the speaker being personal with a patient. The tone shifts in the poem, I feel here, are more personal quality.  In " feeder " there's a sense of extremism with the shifts (through surreal images and direct rhetoric).  He...