I'm hoping, though, that the cotton candy cover tricks people into eating their vegetables all the way through to the end. Short stories, since I wrote the novel, have become extremely binding. They've become very demanding because they're so tightly structured, and much harder for me to write. I feel like Harry Houdini when I'm in one, and I can't remember how I used to get out of this. But you continue to write poetry.
Poems are an outlet for that.
And there's the extreme attention to language. I've dabbled in screenplays, and I couldn't stand to write only in that format, because the language is almost completely unimportant. It doesn't become something, it only relates something. Sometimes you feel like having the quick high of writing a poem, but I don't think I could sustain the up and down, up and down, of writing poetry. But you can't maintain that, either.