I'm Seventy-one Now, So It's

For Sure I Once Thought Of Myself As The Poet Who Would Save The Ordinary From Oblivion.

If That Voice That You Created That Is Most Alive In The Poem Isn't Carried Throughout The Whole Poem, Then I Destroy Where It's Not There, And I Reconstruct It So That That Voice Is The Dominant Voice In The Poem.

I Listen To Jazz About Three Hours A Day. I Love Louis Armstrong.

I Still Believe In This Country, That It Can Fulfill The Destiny Blake And Whitman Envisioned. I Still Believe In American Poetry.

How Weightless/ Words Are When Nothing Will Do.