Delightful yet provocative. I modified "delightful" with "provocative" because delightful is usually associated with fluffiness. This poem is not fluffy. :-)

Nordette

Liked the poem: My first thought of the topic was self-made-man, my second thought was man made self-can have two mwaning--a man lead to himself, or a man made machine. The bottom line is vice- grip or self made vice victum -man made vice victum or self made man with a vice grip.
Definition in language can tell us a lot about things and where our feeling sometimes come from and can get confused.

marvin

well done