I have always tried to defeat convention,

and disdained its shaping of my freedoms.

 But of late I find it creeping in to farm my

ways and thoughts and channel my expectations.

 

I am resisting, of course, but how can one resist

language and history, even in this age of the

disturbing digital take on the world.

 

Convention is there—it always has been—and who

can deflect orthodoxy?

 

20/1/2022