For Me, Everything's Too Much And Nothing's

In My Godless Household, Poems Were The Closest We Came To Sacred Speech -- The Only Prayers Said.

I Don't Have A Copy Of My Books, And The Degree To Which I Never Read Them Is Profound. I Never Look.

It Turned Out To Be Impossible For Me To 'run Away' In The Sense Other American Teenagers Did. Any Movement At All Was Taken For Progress In My Family.

There's A Space At The Bottom Of An Exhale, A Little Hitch Between Taking In And Letting Out That's A Perfect Zero You Can Go Into. There's A Rest Point Between The Heart Muscle's Close And Open - An Instant Of Keenest Living When You're Momentarily Dead. You Can Rest There.

I Think We Fall In Love And Become Adults And Become Citizens In A Way By Writing Stories About Ourselves.