<i>I have not felt such longing before.
Your very absence makes me angry
   That anything in the world can keep us apart.</i>

Both the love poems and the poems about life and the economy hold up forty years after they were published.

<i>Lately I've wondered about strange things
Like guys who claim to make a great martini.
How the hell do you make a bad one?
Leave out the gin?</i>