What I Wanted To Do Was To

Poems Are Difficult To Silence.

What I Wanted To Do Was To Get That Sense Of Being In Touch With This Lost World While Holding Onto What Draws Readers And Audiences There In The First Place.

When I Was Quite Young I Came Across A Collection Of [franz] Kafka Stories And Read "the Judgment." I Was Just Floored By That Story. I Couldn't Understand It. I Still Don't. I'm Talking About Something I Read More Than 50 Years Ago. That Story Left A Little Scar On Me.

My Father Who In This Case Was An Obsessive Life-long Storyteller, And By A Very Peculiar Trick Of My Father's. My Father Would Tell A Very, Very Long Story, And The Punch Line Would Be In Yiddish.

Writing Is A Performance, Like Singing An Aria Or Dancing A Jig