This is how I came to love Paradise Lost

Maybe it's true that arty types, writers, and thinkers

believe pleasure is due them in abundance.

And that they are lazy.

As an undergrad I rolled out of bed

in the late afternoon to leave my room only

for a twice weekly discussion,

concerning John Milton's

thoughts on his life's purpose -

this was my life's purpose

for an entire spring

of pleasure:

lyric gluttony, booze, and sun.