I've Tried To Become Someone

Now And Again I Feel The Astonishment Of Being Alive Like This, In This Body.

If The Motive Of Writing Is For Some People A Kind Of Exercise In Dirty Laundry, That's One Thing. I've Always Thought Of My Poems As Meant To Be Overheard, As I Think All Of These Poems Are. It Seems To Me If You Get Experience Right, Even Your Most Painful Or Humiliating Experiences - If You Get Those Experiences Right For Yourself And Make Discoveries As You Go Along And Find For Them Some Formal Glue - They Will Be Poems For Others.

All Good Poems Are Victories Over Something.

I’ve Had It With All Stingy-hearted Sons Of Bitches. A Heart Is To Be Spent.

I’ll Always Deny That I Kissed Her. I Was Just Whispering Into Her Mouth.