How To Be A Poet

 Give up on accomplishing 

anything in life...for starters.

Expose yourself to the world,

let the world get inside you.

You have to love language

because words are the 

doorway to the truth, and truth

in whatever form is the poet's

muse.

Drink, take drugs, enjoy ecstasy:

as Wallace Stevens wrote; "The

eccentric is the basis of design."

Besides, straight people are the

problem, their own and others 

worst enemy...they will always

be afraid of you. 

It's not your fault that you're a poet

if you can't help but write. It's like

being gay or something. 

Once it's written, it's no longer yours.

If you write something great, don't 

think it's because you're a great writer.

The writing only happens when you're

not there.

Poetry is the music of your mind...poetry

is like walking on water...poetry is proof

of life, written when there's nothing left

to lose....poetry made even Gregory Corso

seem beautiful. The Beats didn't write 

for fame or money...they just couldn't 

help themselves.

Poetry, music, art...the only things on this

planet worth saving. Humans need them 

like oxygen. What endeavor, what thought, 

could be more important than joy of life?