Position Was Always One of Your Favorite Words

Music: Fantasia 1. By Valentinus Bakfark. Sequenced by M. Behr at Kunst der Fuge.

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Position was always one of your favorite words, As in, What is your position on ...? Here it means opinion, yet It also means pose, Not as in pose a question, But as in positioning oneself in front of a camera, Going public. Since the Hungarian Revolution I have preferred Not to go public. My positions Seem too awkward to expose. What my camera sees remains Undeveloped. I am in no position To have positions. My position is that of a scientist who knows That the last time he was certain of anything He turned out to be looking into a mirror. Shaken, I place my questions Into a mosaic of wonder.