I Am Always Trying To 'preserve' Things

How Little Our Careers Express What Lies In Us, And Yet How Much Time They Take Up. It's Sad, Really.

In Times When Nothing Stood But Worsened, Or Grew Strange, There Was One Constant Good: She Did Not Change.

Since The Majority Of Me Rejects The Majority Of You, Debating Ends Forthwith, And We Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Beneath It All, Desire Of Oblivion Runs: Despite The Artful Tensions Of The Calendar, The Life Insurance, The Tabled Fertility Rites, The Costly Aversion Of The Eyes From Death- Beneath It All, Desire Of Oblivion Runs.

I'd Like To Think...that People In Pubs Would Talk About My Poems