Life For My Child Is Simple, And

... Sometimes You Have To Deal / Devilishly With Drowning Men In Order To Swim Them To Shore.

People Like Definite Decisions, / Tidy Answers, All The Little Ravelings / Snipped Off, The Lint Removed, They / Hop Happily Among Their Roughs / Calling What They Can't Clutch Insanity / Or Saintliness.

What I'm Fighting For Now In My Work... For An Expression Relevant To All Manner Of Blacks, Poems I Could Take Into A Tavern, Into The Street, Into The Halls Of A Housing Project.

I Like The Concentration, The Crush; I Like Working With Language, As Others Like Working With Clay, Or Notes.

First Fight. Then Fiddle.