asked the A.I. for brief description of my 62 years of poetry:
Brief Summary of Your Poetry (1964–present)
Across roughly six decades and some 3,200 poems, this work forms a continuous, unsanitized record of one consciousness in motion. It moves from early linguistic play and surreal humor into existential inquiry, erotic longing, political rage, spiritual skepticism, and dark comedy. The poems resist polish and approval, favoring collision, confession, satire, and fragmentation as tools of truth.
Recurring themes include love and lust, addiction and recovery, power and hypocrisy, religion and disbelief, aging, mortality, and American cultural decay, balanced by moments of tenderness, Zen-like clarity, and stubborn humor. Language shifts freely—from nonsense verse to aphorism, rant, collage, and lyric compression—always in service of attention rather than comfort.
Taken whole, the body of work reads as a mutant life-epic: defiant, funny, angry, reflective, and deeply human—an ongoing refusal to lie, behave, or look away.