My Temperament Is Not Geared To That

Now I Think Poetry Will Save Nothing From Oblivion, But I Keep Writing About The Ordinary Because For Me It's The Home Of The Extraordinary, The Only Home.

If That Voice That You Created That Is Most Alive In The Poem Isn't Carried Throughout The Whole Poem, Then I Destroy Where It's Not There, And I Reconstruct It So That That Voice Is The Dominant Voice In The Poem.

There'll Always Be Working People In My Poems Because I Grew Up With Them, And I Am A Poet Of Memory.

For Sure I Once Thought Of Myself As The Poet Who Would Save The Ordinary From Oblivion.

I Find You In These Tears, Few, Useless And Here At Last. Don't Come Back.