Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

Most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck - it rises.