His first infidelity was a mistake… As her false pregnancy. Later, th… He was born three months earlier t… On his birth certificate, which ha… A marriage license in his hands.…

There comes a time in every man’s… when he thinks: I have never had a… original thought in my life including this one & therefore… eliminate all ideas from my poems

Did you know that Evian spelled b… I myself was unaware of this fact… when John Ashbery, Marc Cohen, a… gave a poetry reading and I introd… to an audience that already knew t…

The sky was a midnight blue velvet cloth draping a birdcage and no moon but the breeze was whistling and the sound of a car

The last Campbell’s tomato soup c… of the twentieth century is going… the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsb… That is an example of a sentence Another is this from a CEO in Fo…

The longer I stare the lovelier you look in my eyes (so made such mirrors and spies) and I’m not don… yet as I enumerate the virtues of your smile, gracious in defeat,

The woman said yes she would go to… Unless he heard wrong and she said… Where they could learn the tango a… Of Nazi war criminals unrepentant… But no, she said Australia. She’d…

700 francs will get you $109.91 on this muggy May afternoon which is good to know since I just found 700 francs in my wall… while Dinah Washington was singin…

No two are identical though they begin from the same point in time the same point in the dream when the radio shuts itself off in the middle of

Remember when Khrushchev said “We will bury you!” on the cover of Time I thought he was

for J.A., December 3, 1975 Ashes that survive the aftermath o… Bury the past bravely, retaining Only those messages that are least… And therefore most desirable

What I propose is not Marxism, which is not dead yet in the English department, Not maximalism, which was

It’s the day of the ram and the head of the year Rosh Ha’Shanah at services I sat next to Mel Torme who outshone

Wisteria, hysteria is as obvious a… as Viagra and Niagara there must… honeymooners traditionally went to… which were, said the divine Oscar, an American bride’s second biggest…

If Ezra Pound were alive today (and he is) he’d be teaching at a small college in the Pacific… and attending the annual conventio…