I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.