It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

The color red is symbolic of passion and action, so this Vajrayogini, as she's called, comes with a mantra and she comes with these various weapons and accouterments that are all symbolic of the kind of activity that this principle, as it were, this psychological principle, does or activates in the world. And there's text and mantra as well.

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.