And also about the "lyric." Which I use loosely as poetry containing an "I." Authorial: Authoritative v. autobiographical. There are really two questions that come up when one makes the choice to have an I. Of course, authority, what can Dillon, white guy from Marin, say about briefly living in West Oakland? (Or about his move to swankier Lakeshore)? But also, what about when "I" isn't author? Or strictly author? Or strictly a singular person at all? That is how I've been working with it lately (where not just I, but all pronouns are conflated & it becomes impossible to map out much or attribute things to certain people or tell who those people are--). I don't know if it's the new/currently status quo way to deal with the question, or to avoid confessional, or to partially use confessional that's so buried in other personas as well that reader can't tell I from I from I from I. It seems just another rebellion, after avoiding persona for so long.