My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.
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Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children – and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
Ideally, I’d love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as… dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.
I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.
One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.
I am introverted and a complete klutz.
Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.
I’ve always liked wearing black. Hats with veils would suit me just fine.
Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.