I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

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'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

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

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.