Anger Is An Appropriate Reaction

For Within Livin Structures Defined By Profit, By Linear Power, By Institutional Dehumanization, Our Feelings Were Not Meant To Survive. Kept Around As Unavoidable Adjuncts Or Pleasant Pastimes, Our Feelings Were Expected To Kneel To Thought As Women Were Expected To Kneel To Men. But Women Have Survived. As Poets.

It Does Not Pay To Cherish Symbols When The Substance Lies So Close At Hand.

The Sharing Of Joy, Whether Physical, Emotional, Psychic, Or Intellectual, Forms A Bridge Between The Sharers Which Can Be The Basis For Understanding Much Of What Is Not Shared Between Them, And Lessens The Threat Of Their Difference.

We Cannot Settle For The Pretenses Of Connection, Or For The Parodies Of Self-love.

I Am A Bleak Heroism Of Words That Refuse To Be Buried Alive With The Liars.