Poem (flashback)

If a picture is worth a thousand words,

then one of my short poems is worth a thousand pictures.

And my prose?

Don't even get me started on my prose...

Let me just put it this way brother:

My prose can make grown men cry, and babies stop crying.

A man once compared me to Shakespeare,

and you know what I said to him?

I said, "My mother used to read me Shakespeare when I was a toddler. And you know what I said to her? I said, 'Mom, enough of this kiddie stuff. Read me my first edition of "Goodbye, Columbus"... or is Roth's prose too fucking beautiful and delicate for you to handle at this hour?'"