Every Noon As The Clock Hands Arrive

When A Father, Absent During The Day, Returns Home At Six, His Children Receive Only His Temperament, Not His Teaching.

You Have An Utterly Sincere Glance When You Look Around After You Are Shipwrecked. You Weep A Long Time On An Island When You Realize What's Happened To You.

I Got About Half The Time I Wanted To Write Poetry. I Got About Half The Time I Needed To Be A Father. So There Is Something In Adulthood That Has To Do With Accepting The Half Of Things, Allowing A Renunciation Of The Other Half, Accepting Half A Basket Instead Of A Full Basket.

We Are Living At An Important And Fruitful Moment Now, For It Is Clear To Men That The Images Of Adult Manhood Given By The Popular Culture Are Worn Out; A Man Can No Longer Depend On Them. By The Time A Man Is Thirty-five He Knows That The Images Of The Right Man, The Tough Man, The True Man Which He Received In High School Do Not Work In Life.

My Life Failed On The Very Day I Was Born.