Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.
I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.
I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.
I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
I like the way the prose and poetry interact.
I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.
I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.
I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.
Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.
When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.
I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.
I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.
I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.
Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.
Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.
I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.
Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.
I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.
It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.
I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.
I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.
"It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation."
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