I'm not sure most love isn't :)

Thank you!

The poem is actually serious beneath the satire - I don't believe we are destined to explore the stars and colonize outer space - that place is absolutely alien and foreign to us. When I look at photos

I call it the oyster theory of creativity. An irritant gets under the writer's skin - like a grain of sand invades an oyster shell. The oyster copes by secreting a protein like substance around the grit

Very perceptive, Arthur. I believe in transference of spirit - I think psychotherapists are especially vulnerable to this

I think everything is a dream and I am an incurable romantic in every aspect of the word - I'm an incurable optimist and denier of cynical viewpoints - if there be ghosts, they aren't frightening but

I haven't heard Eliot read before - it was shocking - not at all what I heard in my head when I read his lines. He sounds sepulchral like Marley's ghost in Dicken's, A Christmas Carol. Perhaps I was hearing

I think that haunting beauty exists but some become insensitive to it - I think pornography can do that - you can defile your sensibilities - I really believe that in order to perceive beauty you need

ha ha...very profound, my friend. Thanks , Arthur. A word of explanation - when I began publishing my work in earnest I went under the name John Geddes, but soon discovered there were other writers both

Thank you, Arthur - those metaphors were very poetic and descriptive I always covet your feedback

That third one! some people seem to have no sense - kind of like me going for a run the other day in a heat wave. Deb was worried...about Abbey our dog who was still panting long after we got home. As

That last joke is so politically incorrect Trump would love it - speaking of distance, I can see the USA across the lake, but to me it's further away than the Moon - I won't visit as long as that clown

I voted for you twice, Alan - too bad my votes still aren't worth a penny :)

Only two faults? ...lucky man, lol. That's why I hate taking psychological tests - I have every symptom

Thank you!

Gracias por una respuesta tan perceptiva. Lo aprecio

Well, that's the problem with holding on to parts of the past that can do no good in the present - nostalgia tends to paint out the dark shadows but sometimes we just have to face the fact that some things

Ha ha...The redheads are all the love interests - the others are just attractive women in the background generally, unless I can't find a better photo - Yeah, that's when I miss having access to a publisher's

Thank you!

Thanks, Alan - some things have to be hinted at - they can never be fully said :)