Joe

“The Basic Con"

Those who can’t find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.

Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too.”
― Lew Welch

“My job is writing poems, reading them out loud, getting them printed, studying, learning how to become the kind of man who has something of worth to say. It's a great job.
Naturally I'm starving to death”
― Lew Welch

“O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!”
― Kobayashi Issa

“They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.”
― Tom Waits