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...Neruda, Ginsberg, KEROUAC, Saul Williams, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Collins, Arthur Rimbaud, Lupe Fiasco, NEW YORK CITY, Hip-Hop, the sound of fire, RUMI, an ex-girlfriend, beautiful strangers, not so beautiful strangers, the MOON, Whitman, BALDWIN, Guevara...
Homeless people, people that never leave their homes, cracked blacktops, Langston Hughes, the sound of squeeking sneakers against gym floors, lips, HER LIPS, William Carlos Williams, poker games, the SOUL of Costa Rica, the SPIRIT of Peru, the HEART of New Orleans, the PULSE of Jersey....
Wild deities, e.e. CUMMINGS, Cornell WEST, Spalding GRAY, the way her hair wrapped around her neck like smoke the last time I saw her, the ocean, the ocean, ahhhhh, the ocean. (What was it Rimbaud said? "Eternity. It's the sun mixed with the sea")... Yeah, to that. And to Oscar WILDE and Ninja Turtles. Ah yes! NINJA TURTLES!
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