Here is my philosophy: Everything changes (the word "everything" has just changed as the word "change" has: it now means "no change") so quickly that it literally surpasses my belief, charges right past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning and I shall have no end: the beam of light stretches out before and behind and I cook the vegetables for a few minutes only, the fewer the better. Butter and serve. Here is my philosophy: butter and serve.
—Ron Padgett
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from New & Selected Poems, 1963-1992, 1995
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Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett (1942- ) is the author of more than 20 poetry collections, including Alone and Not Alone (Coffee House Press, 2015).