There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.
The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.
My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.
Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan).