If to feel is to be unreliable don't listen to us if to be in pain is to be predictable embittered bullying then don't listen to us If we're in danger of mistaking our personal trouble for the pain on the streets don't listen to us

Poetry never stood a chance of standing outside history.

You breathe upon us nowthrough solid assertionsof yourself: teaspoons, goblets,seas of carpet, a forestof old plants to be wateredan old man in an adjoiningroom to be touched and fed.And all this universedares us to lay a fingeranywhere, save exactlyas you would wish it done.