Play House Comments

This poem brought to mind a Talking Heads song, 'This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) ' about which David Byrne commented, 'a love song made up almost completely of non sequiturs, phrases that may have a strong emotional resonance but don't have any narrative qualities.' The poet here makes the connexion in the final syllables, I think - its sudden inversion - that the emotional resonances are surely valid, but which have to have narrative qualities as well, to be a place you can occupy in life.