What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.
Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.
There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.
People who are too uptight make me nervous.
I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.
I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.
Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.
Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
If God had wanted women to have giant, fake boobs he'd be a lot like my brother.