Note by Poetic Outlaws on Substack: "“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will ha…"
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” —Kurt Vonnegut Mr. Vonnegut, a wise man. I am learning, at the late age of 71, to “just do it badly” rather than not getting out the blasted gate… humanity you never had it from the beginning — Hungry Chuck Bukowski, “Those Sons Of Bitches” He never had a soul, having a soul does not make one a pussy. Kurt is in hell, in a lake of Ice-nine rather than a lake of fire, warrior poets have never come from the reserve… “I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. T… I sing in the shower my wife asks m
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