It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time. Perhaps, after all, this is not the right subjec… - Louis Simpson

Where is the Mississippi panorama
And the girl who played the piano?
Where are you, Walt?
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

All that grave weight of America
Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome.
The future in ruins! JH Honesty seems to me to be the best legacy I can leave the world.

I did not wish to protest against war. My object was to remember. I wanted people to find in my poems the truth of what it had been like to be an American infantry soldier. Now I see I was writing a memorial of those years, for the me I had known, who were silent.