The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)
just like you sitting
there they come and talk to me, just the same.
They come to bother us. Why? I said I don’t
know. Perhaps to find out what we are doing.
Jealous, do you think? I don’t know.
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
I begin with a design for a hearse.
For Christ’s sake not black—
nor white either—and not polished!
Let it be weathered—like a farm wagon—
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)