Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
If people in Indonesia look 'different', they are afraid. Racist insults fly if someone does not look like part of the majority. Indonesia is one of the most racist countries on earth, and it has proven it during several of the genocides that have taken place here. But there is no perception, no clue, and no understanding of what racism actually is. And there is zero self-criticism.
I think if I lived in New York I would be really stressed out going out to a club and seeing a good DJ who's doing something on a similar level. I'm pretty critical of myself when it comes to the music. Maybe they're not doing as many samples or the samples aren't put together as specifically but it would stress me out to feel like I needed to be one upping someone. In Pittsburgh, I'm in my own world - I know I'm the guy doing this here.
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.