Thank you, MT. There are some very good poets on Medium whose work deserves more visibility. If I can help, say, even 3 new people to discover your work (and Delaney and Gause) for the first time, then I consider that a good thing. Poem was fun to write. Truth is probably somewhere in between fate and free will when it comes to language, and I probably exaggerated Fate's end of the bargain just to see where it would take me. It certainly feels like my words get the better of me sometimes. --Carlo