tissue

• 1. poem presents power as having immense influence over society
• 2. irony of power over wealth - dictation of value in society

  • receipts and cards "fly our lives like paper kites" - constantly led by money
  • "structure never made to last" - how much power given to weak things until they become great
  • "smoothed" "stroked" - worship to power
• 3. influence of identity

  • maps and borderlines - culture among most common causes of war
  • "Koran" - dictation of morals
  • "turned into your skin"
  • title of "Tissue"