Monograph Quotes

“There is a principle in contract law called "contra preferentum"—any ambiguity in a document shall be construed against the drafter of the document. In poetry, this is reversed.”
― Simeon Berry, Monograph: Poems

“Mind you, the Victorians also tried to claim that the rampant prostitution in the streets was just an epidemic of nymphomania. The poor dears.”
― Simeon Berry, Monograph: Poems

“In the dream, my mission was to find and lock the last door to New England in Maine, so that we would be safe. (Discounting the hordes of weird and bony moose.)”
― Simeon Berry, Monograph: Poems

“Not terribly surprising that I tend to think of masculinity itself as a type of minor catastrophe.”
― Simeon Berry, Monograph: Poems

“I quickly lose patience with the celestial merit badges of the New Agers.”
― Simeon Berry, Monograph: Poems

“This is analogous to how we talk about poems with risk in them—ultimately a dangerous metaphor. It tends to imply that the writer is the real victim here.”
― Simeon Berry, Monograph: Poems

“Clearly, she did not want to be recognized as anything other than a depressed person. There are worse uniforms, I suppose.”
― Simeon Berry, Monograph: Poems

“There they were safe. Or at least equally in danger. He—like other New England fishermen—could not swim. These are the people I come from.”
― Simeon Berry, Monograph: Poems