I put words on paper. I have since my earliest memories. In 1999 I wrote a poem after being told I was unemployable (for life, at 30) after I had gotten myself off the streets. I sent the poem to a magazine and they paid me for it. Since then I've been compelled to try and write myself out of whatever damage I sustained as an addict, I don't use anymore and don't earn any money writing but I will never stop writing. My list of marketable skills is so limited, I call the poetry I write: "comedy." It is how I communicate from the edges of society. It keeps me from taking that final more...
