I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.