In The United States, We Can Talk

Poets Are Political, They Have To Be Reflections Of Their Times [because] They're Living In Their Times... Poetry Is Political In That It's Standing In Opposition To Fascism. Good Poetry Asks A Bunch Of Questions And Asks The Audience To Interact With Themselves Or See Themselves In It; Maybe You Like It Or You Don't Like It. But The Fascist Sort Of Stuff Plays On Your Fears And Tells You To Jump On The Party Line And Gives Some Simple Excuses - Blame This Person.

It's Like Those High-school Yearbook Photos That Everyone Would Rather Not See: Oh My God, Look At That Mullet Hair. I Have Those Photos Too, But For Me, They're, Like, Entire Movies. And They Show Them On Cable.

I Remember Once Acting Really Cool On A Bus With This Girl Named Stephanie. When I Got Home, I Realized That I Had A Really Big Zit On My Forehead. If You Have Acne Problems, You Really Shouldn't Be Acting Like Don Juan.

The Ages Two To 15 I Spent At Different Stages Of Shortness. I Didn't Become A Tall Person Until I Was 16.

These People Say Free Markets Are The Way To Go, But Wink, Wink, The Markets Aren't Really Free. They're Just A Protectionist Racket, And We Have To Pay For It All On Every Level. It's Really Quite Extraordinary, And Immoral, And Illegal. These Things Need To Be Named, And Shamed, And Outed, And Mocked, And Prosecuted.