premises
ideas
statements
mantras
conceptual
izations
get-me-thru
-this
notions
understandings
beliefs
trusts
thoughts
pondereds
for nows
change is the only constant


whatever you need is already there


poems can be powerful, political and tasty


everything is a poem


poetry captures desire that catalyzes


poetry is sound, image, all sense experience
or words
back
any statements i make regarding anything is of course my
own experience only... even though i have made great
effort to educate myself, my strength is not in recall.  i
have been changed and evolved thru my adventures into
other people's work, and that is also the place i can find
solace.  i usually have simply been changed by something i
have read, and there it has become my self. this is the
miracle i am so in love with, and feel compelled to
transmit and sing out. art is an ultimate human right.

now that i am burdened with the vision of this novel to
manifest, i have very different concepts of the writer.  
i wonder if the writer of poetry has less in common with
writer of prose than with another artist, but that is also
a very emotional thought on my part, and obviously there
are too many exceptions to actually say that, but i think
it has some truth to it for me.

the thing that i can say for writing is that there is
editing.  i have gone thru complete runs of omni-fluid
writing - or the sub.conscious purge, as a friend has
called it,  but i do feel that with this work my salvation
in it is the editing.  the core i have complete faith in.
it is my writing of it that i am critical of...

i now realize the life stories of basically all the
writers i have loved are filled with obsession and/or
discipline, not usually in balanced or healthy amounts,
but definitely it is these which make or break a work...i
am too much obsession and not enough discipline right now.
but i have plans for that too!...