Stephen Dunn

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has.

Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.