Listen...

"Both my Grandmothers left my Grandfathers, and my Mother left my Father, and I've never loved a man as much as he loved me.  A man will never leave you unless he's screwing someone else. -You can count on that sugar. But a woman, Ahhh, a woman will leave you to be alone. A woman will leave for herself. To find something, to shake something, to splash life in her face like brisk water. A woman will travel and test and fail and get back up to claim her self. But a man will never leave a home-cooked meal and once-a-week nookie, unless a warm pair of slippers are waiting for him, under other family-room's arm chair."

"People like to say Men are Dogs.  I wish they were. A dog can give you the most honest love you will ever know.  Its not about the wag-tail welcome home they give you every day. Its when you wake up breathless at 3:47 in the morning, and they wake up too. Just to press a wet nose against your cheek and stretch themselves into you.  Never underestimate the warmth of a cold nose."

"If you wake suddenly from a dream that seems like it could have been real, it was. Perception is the only reality. If you believe it, it exists.  Write down every dream you have, be a lucid dreamer, don't come back until you want to. If you can dream of waking from a dream, perhaps you are dreaming still. Write about your dreams until you could close your eyes and walk through them again; until you cant distinguish them from memory. Let the ideas and visions and desires melt together and over flow onto the floor."

"Someone once told me that poetry should be felt upon the pulses, but I can always feel it stick to my ribcage. If it's good poetry, I can feel it trickle down my spine or creep up my neck; raising goosebumps in its wake. You should feel the way writing can throb inside of you like a pulsing, stubbed toe. Promise me you'll find the way it buffets against your chest, and takes you on a spinning tour of Yourself. "

"Remember sweetheart, Yesterday is forever gone and Tomorrow will never be. Revel in Today, because that's all you got sugar."