“sad is the poem i will never write”

“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair!I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

“I wish I had eyes that changed colors from blue to gray, and then after I cried, to all the colors of the rainbow, because then I’d just sit in front of the mirror writing poems that alternated between extremely sad poems, to poems about light refraction and blinking promises.”

“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of 'ideal' poems that one feels ought to be written, but don't because (I fancy) they lack the vital spark of self-interest. A 'real' poem is a pleasure to write.”

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poemsto the absurdity of not writing poems.”