It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.