My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
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It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
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But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
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