My dear friend Aaron Paul, I love you so much.
The future is all around here. ' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.
Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.
But here I hold your dream in my poem.
Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.
As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my poems aloud to myself as I'm composing them. And I enjoy reading to an audience. I think people get tone more easily when they hear a writer read her work. Some people have told me they hear more humor in my poems at a live reading than when they see them on the page. I think that may be a matter of pacing. On the other hand, I've listened to a lot of poetry readings and I know how much you can miss. If you stop to really register one line, you miss the next three or so.
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.
I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.