I Worked At All Kinds Of Jobs,

With, Or Despite Our Scars, We Stay Alive.

Poetry Seems To Have Been Eliminated As A Literary Genre, And Installed Instead, As A Kind Of Spiritual Aerobic Exercise - Nobody Need Read It, But Anybody Can Do It.

I Lived In The Studio Apartment That I Bought For Four Years Before I Bought It In 1989, So I Was Already In It. I Began Living There In 1985, So I've Had The Same Address And Phone Number Since Then.

Women Love A Sick Child Or A Healthy Animal; A Man Who Is Both Itches Them Like An Incubus.

Perhaps First And Foremost Is The Challenge Of Taking What I Find As A Reader And Making It Into A Poem That, Primarily, Has To Be A Plausible Poem In English.