... Life Is A Comedy Far Darker

For A Poet, Making Poems Is A Way Of Viewing The World, Being In The World, Breathing.

All Art Is The Tension, Expressed Between The Uncontainable And Its One Perfect Inevitable Form.

I Haven't The Faintest Notion What Possible Revolutionary Role White Hetero- Sexual Men Could Fulfill, Since They Are The Very Embodiment Of Reactionary- Vested-interest-power. But Then, I Have Great Difficulty Examining What Men In General Could Possibly Do About All This. In Addition To Doing The Shitwork That Women Have Been Doing For Generations, Possibly Not Exist? No, I Really Don't Mean That. Yes, I Really Do.

Although Every Organized Religion Works Overtime To Contribute Its Own Brand Of Misogyny To The Myth Of Woman-hate, Woman-fear, And Woman-evil, The Roman Catholic Church Also Carries The Immense Power Of Very Directly Affecting Women's Lives Everywhere By Its Stand Against Birth Control And Abortion, And By Its Use Of Skillful And Wealthy Lobbies To Prevent Legislative Change. It Is An Obscenity-an All-male Hierarchy, Celibate Or Not, That Presumes To Rule On The Lives And Bodies Of Millions Of Women.

I Still Gasp At The Revealing Lingo For Weapons: Erector Launchers, Thrust Ratios; My Teeth Grind Reflexively When Dubya Sputters Eye-rack And Eye-ran Have 'nookyular Capabacity.