“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”
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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
