I Was A Pretty Happy Kid, I

A Motto I've Adopted Is, If At First You Don't Succeed, Hide All Evidence That You Ever Tried.

When I'm Constructing A Poem, I'm Trying To Write One Good Line After Another. One Solid Line After Another. You Know A Lot Of The Lines - Some Hold Up Better As Lines Than Others. But I'm Not Thinking Of Just Writing A Paragraph And Then Chopping It Up.

I Could Feel The Day Offering Itself To Me, And I Wanted Nothing More Than To Be In The Moment-but Which Moment? Not That One, Or That One, Or That One.

I Knew That Poets Seemed To Be Miserable.

One Of These Days I'm-a Make Me A Book Out Of You.