When I Graduated From High School, It

The First Stories I Wrote When I Was 12 Were About Mars And Landing On Mars.

The Beginning Of Wisdom, As They Say. When You're Seventeen You Know Everything. When You're Twenty-seven If You Still Know Everything You're Still Seventeen.

Thinking Little At All About Nothing In Particular.

The Train Skimmed On Softly, Slithering, Black Pennants Fluttering, Black Confetti Lost On Its Own Sick-sweet Candy Wind, Down The Hill, With The Two Boys Pursuing, The Air Was So Cold They Ate Ice Cream With Each Breath.

Those Who Don't Build Must Burn. It's As Old As History And Juvenile Delinquents.