Poetry Is Engendered In Solitude, So What

We New Yorkers See More Death And Violence Than Most Soldiers Do, Grow A Thick Chitin On Our Backs, Grimace Like A Rat And Learn To Do A Disappearing Act. Long Ago We Outgrew The Need To Be Blowhards About Our Masculinity; We Leave That To The Alaskans And Texans, Who Have More Time For It.

To Live Is To See, And Traveling Sometimes Speeds Up The Process.

Many People Have Believed That They Were Chosen, But None More Baldly Than The Texans.

If A Person Sings Quietly To Himself On The Street People Smile With Approval; But If He Talks It's Not Alright; They Think He's Crazy. The Singer Is Presumed To Be Happy And The Talker Unhappy.

There Were Periods During My Childhood When I Stammered So Badly I Couldn't Talk At All.