I Am X, Be Y, Blessed is the Z — The Founding Work for the Prince of Poets Mantle

The three forms perform different tasks:

• I Am — identification and incorporation;
• Be — command, invitation, or transformation;
• Blessed Is — consecration of the addressee.

The work credits a painting by Emily Eissenberg. Sensitive, satirical, and abrasive passages belong to the poem’s composite voice and should not be extracted as literal biography or policy.