I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

babies ain't cute / hungry.

Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.