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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.