11. [the answer]
Who can write a poem about Geneseo without mentioning beautiful moments
and ugly moments in light of each other?
A freshmon needing reasons to stay, or a senior needing reasons to let go?
Is it anyone who can claim either of these descriptions,
or the many not mentioned?
How about the person writing this poem,
or the one reading it out loud for 19 minutes?
Or any of the other Geneseo hedonists?
(This may sound loddie-dah, but most students & faculty still forget,
or never learned why, to delight in the answer:)
No, not one person can be the geographer
of all its outer and inner rhythms.
Not when we come from different roots
and aim to branch out exponentially (with so much power,
a duo-degree in always shedding and growing out)
from the Tree of Life.