Bugs Bunny is my muse.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.

Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not writing. Once the writing starts, it's too pleasurable to think of it as a difficulty.