Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.

I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.