Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Dunn — The Poetry Center

wonderful bit here when poet jim dunn says, 'i'm not a great poet but i am a great friend'

i hear that, brothers & sisters, & my batteries are charged to 11!  because what matters is not just the work we leave behind us, but how we've lived our only lives.  however, we see it fit our lives.  that is up to you, & yours.  but being a good person, being a good friend, is fucking tops with me.  i don't mean the goody-goody, wishy-washy, kinda good.  i mean being on balance a good person.  again, define that as you wish.  because being a good human being means being a complicated, multifaceted, complex person.  goodness as a category is always being redefined.  so make it count!