Do not present me with
views of a perfect life,
of urban domestication or rural nostalgia,
or champagne sophistication or a thousand
concepts of how I should live.
Do not come to me bearing society's
stabilized values and judgements.
Art is not a thing,
it is a way of life.
1993
(NOTE: Many readers, editors, friends, etc. have asked me about my Lucius poems. I came across the name when younger, it means 'of the light', and I liked that concept. The Lucius poems are usually short pieces and they have great personal meaning to me in many aspects. They are among my favorite poems I've written and have been well recieved and published in various chapbooks and small press literary magazines. There are 15 Lucius poems, a series of maxims entitled the Proverbs Of Lucius(which also has 15 parts) and various other poems most with the subtitle (A Lucius Poem)).
