It was funny when i went to a publishing
Company to say i wanted to do
Poetry book they were
Really disheartened
They really wanted like a biography or something
And i kind of had to do a package deal
Where i do a sort of autobiographical book
If they let me put out a book of poetry
I really believe in poetry
I think you know
If you want to look at the history of the human heart
You need to look to the poets
History books show you where battles were fought
How they marched what they fought with
What the war was fought over
But it really doesn't tell you
About the the heart of the soldier
You know you need to read the love letters
To really understand why people were really fighting
And for me that's what poetry does
I think it's a really essential part of the human
History and it's
You know my favorite poets like pablo naruta
Lot of the russian poets
Um
You really understand the political culture
The religious climate
In a way that you just can't by reading a history book
Um it's really impassioned
I just you know i've always been fascinated by words
I've always loved words
I've always been really moved by writing
Um it's really a
A fascinating
Process to try and take
A mindless wordless
Feeling and try and concrete it into
Words without it deadening
That's a hard job and i've always
Found it to be a great challenge
And i thought that
You know writing for me as a kid helped me so much
You know i had kind of a strange hard childhood
And writing kept me if i think
From doing ** and going crazy
You know it really
Kept tracking myself
It was like my own little babysitter you know i'd
I go wow i'm really thinking dark thoughts
Or while i'm getting out there or while i'm
You know whatever
And so i thought i'd just be valuable for kids
To get into poetry
Because the poetry were taught in schools is great
The poe's great
But he's not who i'd want to start somebody out
On poetry
It's too obtuse you can't really understand it
It has nothing to do with people's lives
And so i put together a book of poetry that was
Like some of my earliest poems
That weren't necessarily great poems
But just because i wanted kids to
Look at writing is something that's approachable
Instead of just
You know this poetry being something that
You know you can't do
And it's for kind of these weird intellectuals that
Write about stuff you can't understand you know
This is called you tell me
I wrote this around the same time as i wrote hands
So i guess it has a pretty similar sentiment
