Clearly, I'm a rather slow thinker. Well, they come at any time. It could be extracted from a conversation. I'm always finding things said that strike me as charming and useful. Well, it all depends.
Some poems come immediately.
Some poems are almost finished as, you know, they're written. Other poems take months. And I've written on a poem for a year or two. Well, I think you have to teach. You don't get paid very much for poems, and even if you were a very successful poet and wrote a lot of poems and published them and were asked to give many, many public readings, it would be very, very hard to scratch out a living that way.