Ma's

I really like the idea of Paul Klee painting in his kitchen, whether it's true or not.

And his idea that drawing is taking a line out for a walk.

I'm disappointed in the Grateful Dead.

The Grateful Dead has replaced Barack Obama as the thing I'm most disappointed in.

I'm going to miss Obama, I can tell already, especially considering the qualities of his possible successors.

Perhaps Obama can arrange for a 4-year farewell tour.

Come to think of it, I'm disappointed in my disappointments. They don't seem worthy of me.

I could do better, I just know it.

When I gave my mother my first book of poems, "The Second Dream", she said, "why can't you write like Edna St. Vincent Millay?"