Twenty Ideas for Poems
TWENTY THEMES FOR A POET
PRIVACY DESTROYS
FINE VS POP
NO GRAY AREAS
EAST & WEST ARE IN SESSION AT LAST
TELLING OUR STORY DEFEATS CRUELTY
NOT SIMPLY PURPOSE VS. CHANCE– NOT.
ADVOCATES ARE HEROES.
LANGUAGE IS OUR INTERNAL SENSE ORGAN.
MUTUAL REGULATION IS THE SINE QUA NON OF MARRIAGE.
HUGS STRENGTHEN PEOPLE.
UNDIRECTED, MEANDERING, RUMINATING — QUITE USEFULLY BETWEEN
THE EXTREMES OF A GRAND EXPANSION AND A NARROW CONSTRICTION OF
THE HUMAN POSSIBILITIES.
COMPARISON OF PEOPLE IS INHERENTLY INVIDIOUS.
JUDGEMENT IS AN ACTION WITHIN THE UNCONSCIOUS, AND HOW WE DO IT
IS UNKNOWABLE (ALSO LEARNING, REMEMBERING, ANALYSIS,
SYNTHESIS, ETC)
PRIVACY IS A FORM OF EXTREMISM –IT IS CRUEL.
HABIT IS A BAD. HABITS ARE USEFUL AND DANGEROUS SUBTLY.
THE EYE SELDOM SEES WHAT THE MIND DOES NOT ANTICIPATE.
THERE IS NO CONCENSUS AS TO WHAT CONSTITUTES THE GOOD PERSON
–NOT IN THE USA– BECAUSE WE HAVE NO COMMON VOCABULARHY
TO DISCUSS IT.
CRUEL IS THE WORST THING YOU CAN SAY.
FEAR, HOWEVER NOT ACKNOWLEDGED, MOVES US MORE THAN ANYTHING
ELSE.
WE CAN ONLY THINK WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY KNOWN.