Sound advice. Excesses baggage costs far too much. I always travel light nowadays and throw just about everything away, except my poems! I will let others do that.
It's the only healthy way to live, Jerry. Pullin' that baggage behind you just gets heavier 'til you drop it off in a storage locker and lose the key. Nothin' like it. Also, grounding such focus in a write... ah, such good self-help.
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
Love ya!
Jane