"Oracle of a Trickster Night" by Anne Waldman
Time to do a little catch-up, since I've missed daily posting for a few days!
This one maybe should have been more obvious than it was, but there are some red herrings in here with mentions of "delicate," "exile," "don't blame me," "karma," "alchemist."
In all honesty, I haven't read this poem enough to feel like I've made full sense of it, but this was one of those times where hearing the song made the connection pretty clear, and I think it's, "I Did Something Bad."
I couldn't place the term "trickster" in any of her songs, but when I heard the verse, "So I play 'em like a violin / And I make it look oh so easy / 'Cause for every lie I tell them / They tell me three / This is how the world works / Now all he thinks about is me," it felt very trickster-y.
The mention of "crucibles" in the poem brought to mind the play "The Crucible," which is about the Salem witch trials, and in this song, "They're buring all the witches, even if you aren't one." And "string me up" from the poem has a similar structure to "light me up" in the song.
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