Your History Month

[dukealien]

Hey Duke-

Would you rather
your treasured story
be victimization
or surmounting it?  Hmm... I'd rather my treasured story be one of celebration. But it's your poem so they're your questions (and answers).
Would you rather be
ugly or beautiful? If I were physically ugly I 'd hope you'd see beyond that (think Hawking).  If I were emotionally ugly I would probably think I was beautiful, so it wouldn't matter what anybody thought anyway.

The poem leaves out everything in the middle, and there're plenty of answers in that middle. 

I usually hesitate to respond to "multiple choice" questions like these, especially when the questions seem to answer themselves.

Well, they're rhetorical questions, of course. And poetry is rhetoric... or is it? Or, perhaps, is rhetoric poetry?