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My eighth collection, Dopamine and the Devil (Coffeetown Press 2025) now available! Survivor of schizophrenia. Poems all over. Songs on SoundCloud.

Joined May 2021
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Well, I always say everything's just a metaphor for everything else. Seems that way sometimes, when you look deeply into reality! #poetrylife
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Where rhetoric can't exactly meet the world...
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"My next big project will be taking all of these plastic bags in the closet and putting them into one plastic bag. After that, I don't know. I can't think that far ahead." #magnumopus
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I'm so proud to have a new one up with @BlackForkReview! Thanks to the editors! I hope you like this one.
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Ah, thanks so much to the fabulous @melostrom for giving this little post a little more mileage...glad to be here!
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Thanks again to @BlackForkReview! Please check out their site! And thanks always to @RodMannix and @UCityReview for the support on here!
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So glad to report a couple of fresh acceptances lately. We shall keep moving forward! I guess poetry can go anywhere from "it's just a bunch of words" to "wow, that means so many things!" #poetry
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Thanks for the repost, dear @RodMannix! We're making some sense out of this symbolic, I do believe!
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The soul says enlarge on this, talk about the images of the leaves and trees in early autumn. No way: that's already been done to death. #poetry
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Swerve 101: Our job is to make it harder for critics to be critics. #poetry
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Some folks can do both: poetry and criticism...I admire that talent, but I just don't possess it...
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Here it is!!! Always a pleasure...
read • hear • make the mag @ 2River.org
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read • hear • make the mag @ 2River.org
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Well, don't you dislike it when The World tries to converge on your poetic musings? #poetrylovers
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I'm so grateful that I don't have to do any yard work. I might very well be a renter for the rest of my life!
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A poem from my latest collection, Dopamine and the Devil. I hope it pleases! #poetry
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Thanks to @RodMannix and @UCityReview as ever! I hope everybody likes the poem!
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Schizophrenia, symbolic walks, allegory, contemporaneous anecdotes involving theory...if this interests you check my new one out! #poetry
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well, thanks always to @RodMannix and @UCityReview for the sweet reposts! I hope I get this one out there as soon I shall start working on putting the next one together!
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Poems and songs, poems and songs. Oh, that I could write a million-dollar thriller! Or a bestselling memoir! But alas, I must toil with verses.
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Oh, I dabbled in other forms when I was young...with catastrophic results! One must stay in one's lane, I guess...
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