Three years ago, when twitter was invented, someone emailed me and asked me what I thought about twitter. They were interested in my twitter philosophy. I was not sure what twitter was at that point so I didn’t reply until a few weeks ago. That interview was finally published yesterday. Here is my favorite answer:

We live in an age that is very similar to the burden of a mayonnaise jar that only has a few skin flakes of cheese left in it. We are constantly wiping our butts with toasted bread and trying to feed it to everyone else under the notion that if other people eat our butt loaves then we will have accomplished the form of greatness we had set out to accomplish.

“Butt loaves” is a pretty good phrase, but I’m not sure I can take credit for it. I was taught the phrase after I spent two years reading these poems every day.