"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry.Apart from the increased travel, I won't let anything interfere with writing poetry.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses