Martin R Roa

I've just started writing poetry again. I used to write a lot into my early 20's, and again about 9-10 years ago. Mostly poetry. I like Bukowski, Dickinson, Henry Rollins, Jim Thompson, Bruno Schulz, Roald Dahl, outsider stuff. I like taking photos. Don't care much for sacharine schmaltz in any medium. Here is some other people's wisdom I like.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"