The big difference was Wood being out of the game. It made it tough because Wood has been able to get to the hole and create for others.

Style is the perfection of a point of view

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment
would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces
Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces.
History, even, does not know what is meant.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

It's not humanly possible to have every piece of plastic and scrap of treated wood out of the waste.