AUTHOR'S TIPS

                       by Walt whitman; one of America's greatest men of letters

For Aspiring Scribes (Article-Feb 1888 'The Signal')

• Don't become a poet.
• Practice your craft and break conventional models.
• First, don't write poetry, second, ditto, third, ditto.
• Carry a pencil and a piece of paper to jolt down daily events.
• Get your hands dirty in mechanics of printing.
• Whack away at anything pertaining to literary life-mechanical part as well as the rest.
• Learn to set type.
• Learn to work at the 'case.'
• Learn to be a practical printer.

---MJN---

A Love Story

I remember the sharp chills-down my spine
The missed heartbeats
The cold shivers that left me sweating
The sweet smells of your cologne-full of love

I could forever think of you, live for you, die for you
I could have held you close, and my heart would always be your peaceful dwelling
I coulda, woulda, shoulda stood by you, amidst the roughest storm, and laughed with you on an easy Sunday morning

We would have held hands down the street
Counted stars under the moonlight
Kissed at the site of the rainbow
Made love first thing at dawn
Grown gray by each other's side

Though you crushed my heart
I still got the memories, so dear and close I hold them
I'll cherish you for the little time you possessed my heart, thoughts and fantasies
...now that you given them to another...

-MJN

Chauvinism and Gender Discrimination

I always say, and I'll always continue to say it, that; the reason most women complain of gender insensitivity and discrimination amongst their genetic lines is no one else's fault but their very own.


What does happen to one, may it be so unbelievable good, or uglily bad...is also because of the actions that they have taken in their lives and for those around them.


Take several instances of the women whom I have encountered...


Of all the women I know of, only a woman employer has the audacity of forcing the employee to procure an abortion; in case of pregnancy; most specifically among house helps.