I like walking on streets as black… now, at two in the solemnly musica… in this town emptied of Lestrygoni… is asleep or trying or worrying wh… they aren’t asleep, while unknown…

Can’t swim; uses credit cards and… intolerable feelings of inadequacy… Won’t admit his dread of boredom,… numerous marital infidelities; Looks fat in jeans, mouths clichés…

I was about to be mugged by a man with a chain so angry he growled at the Lincoln Center subway stat… when out of nowhere appeared a tal… chubby-faced Hasidic Jew with pey…

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…

We have too much exhibitionism and not enough voyeurism in poetry we have plenty of bass and not enough treble, more amber beer than the frat boys can drink…

The old war is over the new one ha… between drivers and pedestrians on… in New York light is the variable… the content according to Rodrigo… self-portraits at the Robert Mill…

The grapefruit in the Florida orc… has ripened into a globe in Hartfo… for him to look at, not to eat. If he had a tin can he would beat it as a drummer in a band beats

I’m a very average person, and I think most people are. I vote with the common man. I have two kids, a boy and a girl. Last Sunday I played golf with th…

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

(July 15) We know who the guards are in those POW movies with brutal

Some people confuse inspiration wi… not me I know it comes from the lu… you breathe it in you breathe it o… it’s the breath of my being the wi… of the waters yes but it’s also so…

As I sit at my desk wishing I did not have to edit a book on poetry and painting a subject that fascinates me usually, but today is not as

There comes a time when the story… different stories and soon after t… retreats to the cave of a solitary… metropolis where no one remembers… whic is, of course, a sign of its…

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…

Eighty-one degrees a record high f… which is not my birthday but will… the eleventh of June comes around… what I want: a wide-brimmed Panam… with a tan hatband, a walk in the…