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Lisa B. Martin    zihuawriter's avatar

Charlie B: a badass poet and honest man, lived in a shack, a free man struggling with the blessings and bondage of a free-thinking mind.

Let words be our salve and our salvation. Send poems to prisoners, maybe friends you have not met or family living under the bridges you may have burned.

Poetry is love, right after homemade pie. Bake! Wake! Write!

Lovely powerful post. Get to it, wordcrafters. The world need us more than ever.

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

It is always the tenderness and intellect that reminds me why Charles B is such a major force. It's one thing to be a horse-playing drunk and bar fight loser, but do it all while listening to Mahler and reading Dostoyevsky-- that's something else. The word should be onion rings. Come on!

He's got his own, beautiful, grimy, 80 proof, 9 to 5 shot corner of the cannon and he earned it! And love that picture!

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