... people get confidential at midnight.

Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

Everything pays for growing tame.

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.