So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his inner ear so he could leave this world as he'd entered it through the undependable irrational influence of water. -Kevin Jeffery Clark It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.