Alloy Delicious

You out there. You’re a person,
Right? Not alien to Earth,
Not non-human, not machine?

Good. This was composed for you
By one of you. So you know.
Everything’s human in here.

But that’s the thing with humans,
Isn’t it? Humans can’t all
Be human, if you’re human.

Deciding who’s more or less
Human, who’s more or less you,
Who’s allowed to speak to you

Or speak for you, who isn’t,
Those are purely human things.
Purity’s a human thing.

And compositions—music,
Lyric, symbolic, moving—
If they’re entirely human

Can’t be purely human, not
To every human. So, here,
This is impurely for you.