"There's some kind of magic going on in Douglas Cole's The Gold Tooth in the Crooked Smile of God," writes Jim Daniels.
From "The Consolation of Philosophy:" "There is a great ledger book behind things/in which you will find recorded all/your joy and success,/sickness, failure, pleasure and suffering/over the arc of several life-times/(because one is never enough),/as every soul is delivered in exact proportion/the same amount of comedy and tragedy."