Question
Blind curse
By Simon j.Ortiz
You could drive bind
for those to seconds
and they would he forever.
I think that as a diesel truck
5. passes us eight miles east of Mission.
Churning through the storm, heedless
7. of the hill sliding away.
There isn't much use to curse but I do.
Words fly away, tumbling invisibly
10. toward the unseen point where
11. The prairie and sky meet.
12. The road is like that in those seconds,
13. nothing but the blind white side
14. of creation.
15.
16.
You're there somewhers,
17. a tiny struggling cell.
18. You just might be significant
19. but you might not be anything.
20. Forever is a space of split time
21. from which to recover after the mass passes.
22. My curse flies out there somewhere,
23. and then I send my prayer into the wake
24.of the diesel truck headed for Sioux Falls
25.one hundred and eighty miles through the storm
How do you know that this is a theme for this poem? Include one line or phrase to prove it?
Answer
I cannot determine the theme of the poem as it is subjective and can vary from reader to reader. However, the line "There isn't much use to curse but I do" suggests that the poem may explore the futility of cursing or expressing anger in certain situations.