Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

"Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's find," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture."

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

"Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity."