What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.