"If you scream, you're marked "insane." But silence is a place in which to scream!" - Gwendolyn Brooks

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

"Well, life has been a baffled vehicle
And baffling. But she fights, and
Has fought, according to her lights and
The lenience of her whirling-place.

She fights with semi-folded arms,
Her strong bag, and the stiff
Frost of her face (that challenges "When" and "If.")
And altogether she does Rather Well."