Routine Is Not A Prison, But The

At Some Point I Believe One Has To Stop Holding Back For Fear Of Alienating Some Imaginary Reader Or Real Relative Or Friend, And Come Out With Personal Truth.

Public Education Was Not Founded To Give Society What It Wants. Quite The Opposite.

Inside My Mother's Death / I Lay And Could Not Breathe.

Where Joy In An Old Pencil Is Not Absurd.

The Fact Is That I Have Lived With The Belief That Power, Any Kind Of Power, Was The One Thing Forbidden To Poets. ... Power Requires That The Inner Person Never Be Unmasked. No, We Poets Have To Go Naked. And Since This Is So, It Is Better That We Stay Private People; A Naked Public Person Would Be Rather Ridiculous, What?