I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.
In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.