I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.