We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.

We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.