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Unconditional Luck: A Hustler’s Heart; Unveiled Art
Life is poetic and in Unconditional Luck, few topics are untouched. It took more than good fortune to get where I am now and as I look back on my life, the poetry almost writes itself. However in this case, these words took about 6 years to come together.
In this collection of verses and quotes readers will delve into the complexities of growin' up in my shoes from all around Georgia to Annapolis, passed failed dreams, and military service. Into spontaneously sparking a creative career after finding and fighting for love, building a family and accepting oneself through it all.
Although the true details of my life lie between the lines, the essence and entertainment is uncanny.
In this collection of verses and quotes readers will delve into the complexities of growin' up in my shoes from all around Georgia to Annapolis, passed failed dreams, and military service. Into spontaneously sparking a creative career after finding and fighting for love, building a family and accepting oneself through it all.
Although the true details of my life lie between the lines, the essence and entertainment is uncanny.
298 pages, Paperback
Published January 17, 2025
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January 23, 2025
Aight, spoiler alert. I wrote it, but listen. Somebody recently said it or eluded to it; regardless, it reads like a well organized diary. I’ve read it cover to cover around seven or 8 times, but picked apart each poem countless times. (Hell, it took me 6 years to chisel this version out of the first that I published back in 2018, “Bad luck is what you make it”.) Then, recently, I was listening to Outcast when 3 stacks said, “you're so Anne Frank. Let's hit the attic to hide out for 'bout two weeks…” and I was like yep. Unconditional Luck is a diary and the USS Lake Erie, CG70 was my attic. I believe it may be a tough read simply cover to cover, but as a book of poetry, I’d argue it’s Pulitzer Prize winning material.
I, personally, have a place in my heart for each poem and quote in this book. There’s some pieces that hit every single mf time I read it and some where I have to sit and think again until I see what I meant. Some pieces that make me cry every time I read a specific number. Pieces that made me laugh while reading the proof that I didn’t even initially mean to be funny. I have a hard time choosing a favorite chapter, but if I had to choose my favorite Chapter it’d be 7. Based on its completeness as a chapter in the book, illustrations and all, as well as the first couple poems. Which are damn near perfection to me. Favorite poem, changes every time I pick up the book, but as of right now it is “Do right and kindly eat” on page 73 of chapter 2.
I hope readers close the book with at least one piece that might entice them to revisit. I find myself almost unable to put it down and I know the pages so well. (Even when poems split and it gets confusing.) Then I get it.
I, personally, have a place in my heart for each poem and quote in this book. There’s some pieces that hit every single mf time I read it and some where I have to sit and think again until I see what I meant. Some pieces that make me cry every time I read a specific number. Pieces that made me laugh while reading the proof that I didn’t even initially mean to be funny. I have a hard time choosing a favorite chapter, but if I had to choose my favorite Chapter it’d be 7. Based on its completeness as a chapter in the book, illustrations and all, as well as the first couple poems. Which are damn near perfection to me. Favorite poem, changes every time I pick up the book, but as of right now it is “Do right and kindly eat” on page 73 of chapter 2.
I hope readers close the book with at least one piece that might entice them to revisit. I find myself almost unable to put it down and I know the pages so well. (Even when poems split and it gets confusing.) Then I get it.
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