There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that have to announce that I ate kale and liked it.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.