Technology has made a whole world of difference in my life. I used to never be able to get any work done at home when I stayed with my mother. Sure she had a PC. but it didn’t have internet. And I could never seem to figure out how to work it.
So I went to the public library, like daily! I’d try to find the places that were open on Sundays too. They gave you only 30 minutes of time back then to spend on the computer, so you kind of had to be game ready. You could happen up on some extra time from time to time but still it wasn’t enough for me as far as being published was going.
This one other guy Andre, I believe, managed to get his book published with lulu.com. He later took over poetry.com shortly after. I managed to publish a piece called “4:20 in the afternoon” with their newly branched out and folded publishing company called Watermark Books.
In spite of those setbacks, I’ve persisted in my life. My struggles to this point have not only offered me clarity but stability. I’m still able to prosper off of my old dreams and ideas and concepts that I’ve had to lay aside whilst dealing and coping with real-life issues. I get to speak of these things in my poetical conjurings.
Now that I have my own housing and a computer of my very own, I successfully completed three books. Two of them were chock full of the classic poems penned of old and new rendering.
