but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.