But I'm Too Old To

No One Can Write Like Vallejo And Not Sound Like A Fraud. He's Just Too Much Himself And Not You.

Meet Some People Who Care About Poetry The Way You Do. You'll Have That Readership. Keep Going Until You Know You're Doing Work That's Worthy. And Then See What Happens. That's My Advice.

There'll Always Be Working People In My Poems Because I Grew Up With Them, And I Am A Poet Of Memory.

How Weightless/ Words Are When Nothing Will Do.

My Mother Carried On And Supported Us; Her Ambition Had Been To Write Poetry And Songs.