 Everyday, the gender-warping subject of the poem has a new area of exploration and revelation, and the poem brings the reader through the highs and lows, the turmoil and the peace, that the disembodied protagonist transverses.weiss began writing this poem in 1961 and spent seven years on it, not completing it until 1968.It was published in 1977. weiss describes this poem, like the bulk of her work, as a performance piece, a piece whose meaning she can fully express only through enacting it.