Bio

Born: Well, yeah.
Educated: Depends on whom you ask.
Lives: For the most part

As I suspect most writers/poets do , I began writing as a cathartic experience. As I evolved, Others Whom I Held In High Esteem (the OWIHIHE), told me what I was writing was good, BUT (always a condition), I was writing for the wrong audience.

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Now. . . . . I believe that ALL poets are essentially selfish persons. They write under the assumption that absolutely no one else feels the emotion they're feeling, no one else is as righteously outraged as they are, no one else is as in love as they are.

So I was surprised twice - not only did the OWIHIHE think my poems were good; which is the ultimate compliment from an "established author" to greenhorn, but that they felt there was an audience for it.

The OWIHIHE figured I ought to be aiming for the upper echelon, which is hilarious, since I grew up on the far, far side of the wrong side of the tracks. Their vaulted opinion pissed me off.

So, the OWIHIHE lost 50 cool points and their pedestals have been cut into firewood.

My friends, a more important source of information and sense, informed me that they identified with the emotion I try to capture in my work, be it one regarding black-on-black prejudice or an ache caused by a heartless jerk.

So, these poems are not only the fruit of my mind, they are the assembled opinions of friends, colleagues and collected freaks.

However, one idea runs through all of them: Capture the emotion.

Thanks for reading.

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