I Have Spoken To Expert Audiences Occasionally,

I Was Very Committed To The Process Of Composing, Working At Poems, Putting Things Together And Taking Them Apart Like Some Kind Of Experimental Filmmaker.

I Had No Idea Where These Kids At A Small Private College In The San Fernando Valley Were Coming From, Why They Were Coming To Hear Me, Or What They Needed To Know.

Stories Are Different Every Time You Tell Them - They Allow So Many Possible Narratives.

I'm Standing Up Thinking. Anybody Who Wants To Listen Is Welcome. If Not, I'm Happy To See Them Go.

You Pay Your Money, You Take Your Choice. I Get The Audience My Language Attracts And I Lose The Ones It Repels.