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I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.
You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.
The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then
People can put their best poems straight onto the web.
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.
There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?
If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.
If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.
Noone knows and noone sees
we lovers doing what we please
but people stop and point at these
ten milk bottles a-turning into cheese
I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.
By thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together.
