... the more you cut the more your voice intrudes ... Bukowski: small poems that slowly build an entire Self ... maybe texts you don't know are better ... poems where the first line is a full uncut line from the text: it sets the voice, tone, line, sounds ... audio recordings to accompany ... the lesser and greater reséarches ... the short choppy poem vs the long smoothed-out poem ... you can only work for a few hours a day, then take a walk--see friends ... the first poems remain the best--why? ... "I have no Inner Resources" ... I need to be able to save work-in-progress over time and to work on serveral poems simultaneously ... have you thought about mixing texts? (Origin of Species and My Utmost For His Highest, The Elegant Universe and a Zane Grey western) ... read more Wittgenstein ...