Thought

Try saying something that is heard, noted, judged important (or merely interesting), remembered, repeated. Something that competes and somehow survives among the hundred billion daily utterances of the world. This is the mad dream of the poet.

Thought

No authority negates the right of self-defense.

Mind (Hicok)

Mind doesn't create a thing but is the created thing.

Bob Hicok, from "A letter: the Genesis poem"

Biscuit and cake

Cheese biscuits with parsley and dill.

Chocolate fudge cake.

Positive aesthetic values (Kamienska)

Art relies on the conversion of even flaws and defects into positive aesthetic values.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

Anna Kamienska, from In That Great River: A Notebook

Meal

Slow cooker scalloped potatoes with ham.

No crust coconut pie.

How much? (Curdy)

they didn't know what to do
and carried on doing it

his ear
mistook the self's own alienated music     called it sorcery

What use ambition in the desert

How much can I change before I am changed

Averill Curdy, from "Chimera"