Woman Is Only A Recent Invention

		With thanks to Kathy Drew and the women of WMST-L in July 1995.

I recently heard Ursula LeGuin read 
an essay 
that has yet to be published. 
She started 
with the assertion that she is a man 
and recommends you take her 
seriously.

As evidence of this, 
she notes that she is a writer, 
and a writer knows 
which side *his* bread is buttered on.

She admits to not being 
a very good man, but a man 
never 
the less.

Woman is 
only 
a recent invention.

Not that 
it 
hadn't been invented before--just never caught on.

You had your Gertrude Stein model and your Emily Dickinson model.... 
Now it is too late.

While she has been busy 
trying to be 
a man, 
she has become an old woman

and old woman has not been invented yet.

Shaula Evans's questions:

1. This is a piece of found poetry. What is the best way to acknowledge the originator of the text?

2. Is there a more elegant / effective / poetic / appropriate way to handle the line breaks?

3. Does the title work?