There Is No Longer Any Such Thing

You Can't Remember Sex. You Can Remember The Fact Of It, And Recall The Setting, And Even The Details, But The Sex Of The Sex Cannot Be Remembered, The Substantive Truth Of It, It Is By Nature Self-erasing, You Can Remember Its Anatomy And Be Left With A Judgment As To The Degree Of Your Liking Of It, But Whatever It Is As A Splurge Of Being, As A Loss, As A Charge Of The Conviction Of Love Stopping Your Heart Like Your Execution, There Is No Memory Of It In The Brain, Only The Deduction That It Happened And That Time Passed, Leaving You With A Silhouette That You Want To Fill In Again.

Congress Is So Beholden To The Money That Any Solution In The General Interest Will Be Frustrated And Subverted By The Corporate Interests Who Feel They Will Be Damaged By Progress, Fair Play And Justice.

A Writer Of Books Has To Admit That Film Is The Enemy, And That In My Case I Have Been Sleeping With The Enemy.

Stories Distribute The Suffering So That It Can Be Borne.

I Have Committed Many Sins In My Life. This Precise Sin-the Sin Against Poets-is Without Absolution.