[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.

In short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life. Rather than complaining, I am recognizing that I couldn't do what I wanted to do because I'm distracted.

Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.