But I'm Too Old To Be Written

My Earliest Poems Were A Way Of Talking To Somebody. I Suppose To Myself.

It's Ironic That While I Was A Worker In Detroit, Which I Left When I Was Twenty Six, My Sense Was That The Thing That's Going To Stop Me From Being A Poet Is The Fact That I'm Doing This Crummy Work.

Some Things You Know All Your Life. They Are So Simple And True They Must Be Said Without Elegance, Meter And Rhyme...they Must Be Naked And Alone, They Must Stand For Themselves.

I'm Seventy-one Now, So It's Hard To Imagine A Dramatic Change.

But Most Commonly, It's One Poem That I Work On With A Lot Of Intensity.