DEAR DEAR FRIENDS

dear friends there is nothing more interesting exciting inspiring enlightening encouraging than talking about poetry it is more interesting than talking about stock market or polics or clothing or housing or eating even more interesting than talking about sex haha just kidding it is interesting because i don't know what "poetry" is who knows? isn't that why we keeping reading writing poetry? well, we seem to know a little bit about poetry like we know about other "things" such as love do we know about "love?" the more i think about poetry the less i seem to know what it really is what is a word? what is a sentence? what is love? what is a tear? what is everything? a poem is a song but it is often sung from someone's heart not mouth only maybe that is why poetry can be complicated because it is about the business of heart heart, not as what a surgeon tells us or a heartless smartass who seems to know everything a poet usually follows his/her heart not much of his/her logically trained traditionally polluted brain so, when a poem comes it is sung from the heart regardless all the non-heart business i sing my heart who am i? a male, a chinese, a chinese-american, a tax payer a blue domer, a air breather, a nature lover, a animal lover, a word lover, a war hater, a poetry lover, a beauty lover, a water lover, an ink lover, a book lover, a silence lover, a night lover, a man with a heart, a man with a brain, a man with a voice, a man with a penis what does that mean? that means i cannot write pretending i don't have a penis cannot write predtending i don't have a heart, a voice, an opinion or something sharp to poke through the thin film wrapped over the shitball of the 2nd hand generationally recycled this and that we cannot escape ourselves especially when it comes to poetry poetry shows who you are not hiding whichever side you want to hide poetry should not be perfect poetry should be simple as a working man a man honest about what he does a man pround to labor with his mind a man dare to say whatever has meaning to him a woman can do even more than a man this is not about s.e.x sex is boring sex is really like eating you eat when you are hungry that is all there is to it but again the heart heart is not easy to be analysed hearts need to be opened like the infant's new eyes opened for the first time to the world we are not that different from an infant if we are willing to give the heart a chance a window a place and hopefully another heart to feel the wonderful loneliness in a wonderful place called poetry :5/6/05