Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.
The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.