that's impressive, though. i have never been able to rhyme or to write in strict meter. all my poems are free-versey and owe more to poetry slams than to the historical greats. the mailguy will be bringing me a hardback collection of t.s. eliot in a couple of days. i used to Fear Him [eliot, not the mailguy], because in college i was taught that he was Difficult; but now that i'm all grown up, i find him rapturously wonderful.

there's a scene in a film i just watched, L.I.E. (rather disturbing movie), in which the kid seduces an older man by gorgeously quoting whitman. could've been a cliche, but it wasn't. i belong to the Church of Poetry, btw. and now i'll shut up. (the waitress must've given me regular instead of decaf at breakfast, sorry!)