At the End of the Day (2010)

Not Sadness Which Is Always There

"After I had learned to live with my sadness
There came another, more disturbing strangeness
Whose purpose I could never understand, who always came at night

And who kept me awake all hours
Until I turned on the headlamp to read,
As if finally forced to concede,

Not understanding that some things have nothing to do with the Will.
I who had conducted my life so that
I could not do other than what I do,"

- The Daily Round, 1976


Regrets

"I've never admitted I don't like my nose.
Why give people the satisfaction?"

- Lost Glove, Spring 1980