You Can't Eat Straight A's.

Adultery Is Extravagance.

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.

In A Time Of Destruction, Create Something: A Poem, A Parade, A Community, A School, A Vow, A Moral Principle; One Peaceful Moment.

Long Ago In China, Knot-makers Tied String Into Buttons And Frogs, And Rope Into Bell Pulls. There Was One Knot So Complicated That It Blinded The Knot-maker. Finally An Emperor Outlawed This Cruel Knot, And The Nobles Could Not Order It Anymore. If I Had Lived In China, I Would Have Been An Outlaw Knot-maker.

When You Raise Girls, You're Raising Children For Strangers.