You Can't Eat Straight A's.

I Learned To Make My Mind Large, As The Universe Is Large, So That There Is Room For Paradoxes. Petals Are Bone Marrow; Pearls Come From Oysters. The Dragon Lives In The Sky, Ocean, Marshes, And Mountains; And The Mountains Are Also Its Cranium. Its Voice Thunders And Jingles Like Copper Pans. It Breathes Fire And Water; And Sometimes The Dragon Is One, Sometimes Many.

...i've Learned Exactly Who The Enemy Are. I Easily Recognize Them-business-suited In Their Modern American Executive Guise, Each Boss Two Feet Taller Than I Am And Impossible To Meet Eye To Eye.

Reading Ngo Tu Lap's Poems, Terrible Nostalgia Wells Up In Me- Nostalgia For A Lost Time And A Far-gone Country, Nostalgia For People I've Loved, And For Creatures Of Forests And Rivers. I Feel Gratitude Too. War Is Over. Peace Arrives With These Beautiful Poems.

Do The Right Thing By Whoever Crosses Your Path. Those Coincidental People Are Your People.

Attraction Eludes Control So Stubbornly That Whole Societies Designed To Organize Relationships Among People Cannot Keep Order, Not Even When They Bind People To One Another From Childhood And Raise Them Together.