Right now I feel like a scumy corporate ad agency. I said I was hiting the road this morning, but I’m writing from my couch. The reason for the delay is simple: I still haven’t slept. I was up all night doing some necessary editing, preping, and submitting of my poetry.
So tomorrow morning I’m off and my current plans are to spend about a week driving around Michigan, visiting some sites of poetic interest. I’m also hoping to visit some used book stores to search for books of Michigan poetry. I’m especially hoping to find some chapbooks of poets I’ve never heard of.
Also I spoke with Joyce and she received a few items in the mail from her auntie that we’re going to look over. I’ll probably get there Wednesday so stay tuned.
Side Notes: I watched Freedom Writers while home and it’s the first movie I’ve cried at in a long time – a must see feel good movie based on a real life everyday hero. Just how contagious can one person’s hope for others’ become? Watch this movie and see how you feel inside, and remember you’re sitting on your couch far away from the true story. I also watched a documentary called The One Percent about the growing disparity of wealth in America and it was interesting, but mediocre at best. The movie’s creator (wealthy descendent of Johnson & Johnson founder I believe) tried to let on that he really wanted to fix the problem of this disparity, but even when he portrayed himself asking the ‘tough questions,’ he was really asking them for show in neutered places like his home. The movie played more like a “I want to be perceived as caring” vesus “I’m not going to accept things are the way they are no matter the consequences.” Don’t waste your time with it – if the kid wasn’t a wealthy descendent this wouldn’t have made it out of Blockbuster’s 49 cents bin.
POETRY – I received my first rejection letter.
Time to get a good night’s – make that a good two-night’s sleep.
peace.
