I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

You can do anything, really. And that, l think, is one of the exciting possibilities of the present, l swear, is the possibility that the goddamn thing can be modaled throughout.

I was playing catch with the European audience.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.