I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
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Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
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If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.
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In the green scheme of things, death becomes a vehicle for land conservation and saving the planet. It is not enough to be a corpse anymore, ... Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.
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