“There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.”
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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
