From Contemporary Poets . From an interview with Frank Graziano in Graziano, ed. It has been necessary to submit to vacancy in order to begin again, to clear ground, to make space. I can allow nothing to be received. Therein lies my triumph and my mediocrity.
Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
I am passing it on. The monument is a void, artless and everlasting. I am no longer. I speak for nothing, the nothing that I am, the nothing that is this work. And you shall perpetuate me not in the name of what I was, but in the name of what I am.