Larry Fagin and Ron Padgett

Meeting with Larry Fagin last January made me see that a life devoted to poetry -- a life such as Larry Fagin's -- would be a life well-spent.

Lying in bed this morning reading Ron Padgett poems made me see that if I devoted the rest of my life to reading Ron Padgett poems -- to experiencing all that I experience while reading his poems -- it would be a life's remainder well-spent.