You are what you think about all day.

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.

one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.