Strange, It Is A Huge Nothing That

Anyone With Gumption And A Sharp Mind Will Take The Measure Of Two Things: What's Said And What's Done.

Don't Be Surprised If I Demur, For, Be Advised My Passport's Green.

I Shall Gain Glory Or Die.

Anything Can Happen Is Also, Incidentally, A Poem That Arose From Teaching. I'd Talked About The Horace Ode (i, 34) [on Which The Poem Is Based] In A Lecture I Gave At Harvard In The Fall Of 2000 Entitled Bright Boltsand Remembered It After The Twin Towers Attack.

Two Buckets Were Easier Carried Than One. / I Grew Up In Between.