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I Will Try To Be Non-violent One More Day This Morning, Waking The World Away In The Violent Day.

Hollywood Works Continually To Keep Its Standard Of Contempt For The Audience.

One Writes In Order To Feel.

Slowly I Would Get To Pen And Paper, Make My Poems For Others Unseen And Unborn. In The Day I Would Be Reminded Of Those Men And Women, Brave, Setting Up Signals Across Vast Distances, Considering A Nameless Way Of Living, Of Almost Unimagined Values.

No One Wants To Read Poetry. You Have To Make It Impossible For Them To Put The Poem Down--impossible For Them To Stop Reading It, Word After Word. You Have To Keep Them From Closing The Book.