diy poetics

i learn from the film writers of exploitation cinema that to make the work you want to read you have to do it yourself  

use whatever materials & means you have at hand 

make your art & put it out there if by digital platforms or homemade chapbooks

& remember what dickinson said about fame

'fame is a fickle food'

& keats said

'till love & fame to nothingness do sink'

& merwin said

'if you have to be sure don't write'

a career is what you do for money

poetry is not a career

it is in the phrase eileen tabios

'poetry as a way of life'

live as you write 

write as you live

& most important of all

do all these things without being an asshole