who are your favorite poets? i was asked.

i never want to answer "what is your favorite this" questions. i don't like to play favorites.

myth: song lyrics are just poems set to music

no, song lyrics are song lyrics.

sitting at the beach, listening to the boom box, doing coke with the teenagers circa 1985. i was only seven years old, but i was precocious. when the big kids took over the swings at the playground and started smoking cigarettes, i bummed a light and showed them a thing or two about love. by the time i was nine, i was driving a motorcycle. i lost my virginity at eight and a half on a memorable september night - the night i was crowned "pontiff of self-aggrandizement" by my awestruck pseudo-peers.

when i reached maturity, i was unstoppable, until a dreadful experiment in arson cost me my right hand. now, i command an army of disenchanted hair band rejects.