Against All Odds
| Dying of alcoholism, dressed in rags, I picked myself off
a bench in New York City’s Thompson Square Park and came to San
Francisco to recover. I had been in and out of the mental health care
system and had attempted suicide. During my detox I suffered from severe
paranoid delusions.
It is my believe that everybody is a poet and that poetry is a way to empower oneself to begin to heal. Poets have traditionally served in political office in Third World nations: why not in America? At times I have fantasies of some day becoming America’s first Poet Congressman. Alan Kaufman, Client |
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