: About Me

I write for pleasure. Writing to please myself is the ultimate source of empowerment, because I am the last word on what pleases me. I choose my topic, my stance, voice and approach. My only critics are the handful of influences who are allowed to speak in my head. It is a select group, -selected by me.

Now, I shall attempt to write with new intentions. I need income. I will choose topics from those that are deemed of value to the people. I will seek an alto voice that will ring comfortably in most ears. I will adhere to deadlines, guidelines on style and specifics on assignments.

The challenge will be to retain that which makes me unique while attempting to fulfill these requirements.

My passion is ...

....well, I'm not comfortable with the word "passion". It seems a bit out of control.

I know too much about ...

birds.

My parents always told me ...

to grow up.

My childhood ambition ...

was to remain childlike.

My favorite memory ...

didn't really happen. It was a dream.

Why I write ...

..(see, "aboutme")

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

King Sunny Ade'

My first job ...

illustrating materials to promote creative writing to poor urban students.

My best moment ...

when I invented a religon that makes stress and suffering a sin.

My inspiration ...

Matt

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Hard times

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The torn screen glistens in the October side light. Each intact square aperture is bottom lit with a blinding point. Each gaping rent, product of tenacious cat claws, is framed with glowing pointers. The jumping spider haltingly, robotically traverses the vertical landscape. I don't need to smell the screen. I know precisely how screens smell and taste.

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