: About Me

A serious writer with a passion for poetry ever since I can remember. Luckily, I had a very good English teacher when I was in high school. Despite my gifted mathemat-ical mind, I prefer to write, but you can see my mathe-matical training through the language I use.

My favorite authors are e.e. cummings, Jack Chalker, L.E. Modesitt Jr., and R.A. Salvatore. I suppose that my dabbling in these role-playing fantasy genre really shows, too.

Since I became disabled, I have been able to focus on my writing to the tune of completing five books of poetry of some length. None have been published in their entirety, but many singular efforts have found audiences. I don't write simply of love themes or romantic drivel(though I have some of that) In fact, what I consider my best work is titled, "The Demise of Danny Dominoes". It is a very modern look at archaic beliefs.

I grew up in southwest Oklahoma and now reside in south-west Missouri. I have an AA in Mathematics from the local junior college, and routinely volunteer with local organizations. I have an extensive history teaching all types of students from sixth grade on. At my last count, I had helped almost six hundred adults get their GEDs in the last fifteen years.

My next project is going to be a content web-site to promote literature in this new medium. This is the infor-mation age, and we have barely tapped the surface of what the Internet can be.

My passion is ...

poetry

I know too much about ...

the only pure language, mathematics

My parents always told me ...

do it once, do it right and move on

My childhood ambition ...

to build cities

My favorite memory ...

"noodling" with my dad, brothers, and uncles

Why I write ...

I'm a writer

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading L.E. Modessitt Jr./watch Family Guy/listening to Elton John

My first job ...

washing dishes in my mom's restaurant at six

My best moment ...

graduating college without any help from my family

My inspiration ...

Army Captain Joe Charles, friend, mentor and teacher

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Knowing ourselves

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pothing pothing is nerfect especially not me for it is the only I that i see in the mirror through my glasses (of course) i can't see anything without them and ZenTV.com/net doesn't come in often not often enough to worry about can't pay my bills either i am sure you are a believer in the artistry of chaos that is pure sure i know that you are laughing that's the thing by some coincidence i'm laughing too at you

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