On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia W. C. Fields on his tombstone I have been writing poetry since I was twelve years old, and within sight of where I am sitting at the moment are more than seventy-five notebooks full of poems. When I returned to the United States from Vietnam in March of 1966 I spent at least fifteen years--in the words of Bryon--being "mad and bad and dangerous to know". I suffered from post-traumatic stress...
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