First Journal Cover
I started writing poetry when my family moved to NewZealand shortly after my sixteenth birthday. The shock of moving from SantaCruzCalifornia to DunedinNewZealand in 1989 was made bearable by the discovery that there were kids who had compatible interests and ambitions including a profound lack of respect for anything dictated by "The Man". The poetry was accidental, and eventually lapsed into prose, but I kept at it for years until I'd amassed a sufficient collection to be embarrassing when girlfriends discovered it.
This is a transcription of the cover of my first journal. The words were written over a series of years between my senior year of high school and dropping out of college and starting EarthLight.
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