No Husband Of Mine Will Say, "i

And I Had To Get Out Of Hating Range.

Let My Life As Poet Begin. I Want The Life Of The Poet. I Have Labored For Over Twelve Years, One Thousand Pages Of Prose. Now, I Want The Easiness Of Poetry. The Brevity Of The Poem.

Attraction Eludes Control So Stubbornly That Whole Societies Designed To Organize Relationships Among People Cannot Keep Order, Not Even When They Bind People To One Another From Childhood And Raise Them Together.

I Learned To Make My Mind Large, As The Universe Is Large, So That There Is Room For Paradoxes.

My Aunt Could Not Have Been The Lone Romantic Who Gave Up Everything For Sex. Women In The Old China Did Not Choose. Some Man Had Commanded Her To Lie With Him And Be His Secret Evil.