excerpt from Introduction
You don't know anything, man. The world is ending under your feet and you don't know it. You are not wise to the ways, man. You don't need a computer, man, to know which way the wind blows. In 20 years, there will be no computers. But love, man, there will always be love. Don't blow your love, man. That's all I'm trying to say, really. Don't blow the love. War is like the opposite of love. Don't go there, man. It's not worth it. And poetry is the opposite of war. You hear what I'm saying? Groove with me, because there is only one groove. And you are it! That's poetry. You are poetry. Read my poetry, because it just changed your world.
So you get what I'm saying? Poetry is the experience of language without the drag of meaning, except meaning to mean beautiful, to mean true. Words, man, are dragged down by us using them all the time. We got to set them free, man. That's the jive of poetry. That's what I'm saying, brothers and sisters. Language makes our world. World is a word. Change the words and change the world.