Pin down some stranger till the thing is read.

When weeds choke up within, then look to me

To show the world the manners of a weed.

I cannot change my cloak except my heart

Has changed and set the fashion for the deed.

When love betrays me I go forth to tell

The first kind gossip that too-patent fact.

I cannot pose at hunger, love or shame.

It plagues me not to say: “I cannot act.”

I only mourn that this unharnessed me