It’s in your blood:
No matter what, keep writing… it’s pure medicine. It has kept me going more times than I can count. And I’m sure that’s true for a whole lot of people who write. It’s a form self medication. And it can right the course of our ship more often than not. So keep with it. You've got a clear expressive quality. It’s in your blood.
the essence in four lines:
I've bled my last – give a fuck
Forgotten what feeling felt like
No heart strings left to cut
Now there's only fade to numb
This – this is the brilliant heart of it.
These four lines are the perfect poem, just by themselves.
let it lap and fill you:
Sometimes when darkness becomes a harbour, we need only lay back and stop navigating, to feel the warm sensuous lap of the sea.
the fundamental impulses always remain intact: As I grow older, I become deeper inclined to believe that Nature is a finely choreographed dance of sexual impulses – not far removed from the postulations of Sigmund Freud. Sexual energy is both a dynamo – and the impulsive glue, energizing and holding it all together.
And it transcends whatever age we may be, as those fundamental impulses always remain intact.
THank you, and please forgive: THank you, and please forgive my delay in reply. I am hospizatlized at the moment with septic blood, and sometimes irrgegular heartbeat.
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I am grateful for your understanding and validation of my intentions in the poem.
I seriously doubt the validity..: I seriously doubt the validity of this poll. 92% said no to Bush? Where have all the red-blooded American men gone? Are they all so intimidated by the 'woke' movement that they can't even acknowledge their primal desire to get with a member of the opposite sex? I'll tell you one thing, this overweight, out-of-shape middle aged American male will never say no to Bush. Ever!