Kayden• Show poetry

I only really write when I'm not feeling my best, so most of my poems reflect that. Not all of my poems are all dark and depressing though. Some are uplifting, and I've even recently started trying my hand at humor poetry.

The newest form I'm trying is Acrostic. I've never really been that great at them, so I'm trying to improve (any advice or critiques on the ones I have up are greatly welcomed!)

Music is a huge part of my life. I don't know how I'd live without it. I don't limit myself to one genre, so some of my favorites are Something Corporate, Ryan Cabrera, Josh Groban, Backstreet Boys, Green Day, The Killers, Fall Out Boy, Casting Crowns, Shudder, Black Eyed Peas, U2, John Mayer, Kajagoogoo, Usher, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Jimmy Buffet, Bon Jovi, Toby Mac, Relient K, The Click Five, Smashmouth, Boomkat, Antigone Rising, Brian McKnight, The Used, Story of the Year, Nickelback, Emerson Drive, 3 Doors Down, Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas, Creed, Bon Jovi, Goo Goo Dolls, Drake Bell, Simple Plan, Hellogoodbye, MxPx, Motion City Soundtrack, and others that I really, really don't feel like typing up right now.

I'm something of a photographer as well. Not great, but I do try. Mostly sunsets/beaches when I'm on vacation.

The most important thing you could possibly know about me is something that you'd never guess when we're only facing computer-to-computer. I've got Spina Bifida. I was born with it. People stare, people ask questions, people shun me. I've gotten used to it. I'm not in a wheelchair, so I walk a bit funny. Other than that, I'm pretty average. It's kinda funny actually. For those that take the time to get to know me, their first impressions of me blew my mind (and I have these on very good authority); witty, intelligent, strong. And these were people I barely spent four hours with. So I guess I'm a half decent person to talk to. Just don't make me talk with someone my age I don't know face-to-face. I hate that. Can't do it. My peers judge too quickly and then get all nervous around me. I'd much rather talk to adults. They have more to talk about anyways.

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"Fashion is a form of ugliness to intolerable, they need to change it every six months."
--Oscar Wilde

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“A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feeling through words. This may sound easy. It isn’t… [because] the moment you feel, you’re nobody–but–yourself. To be nobody–but–yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting…. If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you’ve written one line of one poem, you’ll be very lucky indeed…. Does this sound dismal? It isn’t. It’s the most wonderful life on earth.” - E.E. Cummings

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I did the Mike Wallace radio show in New York at the CBS building. We went in and the electric eye had a case of the hiccups. The door was one of these doors where you’d step on the pad and the door would slide open. And this door was almost pitching a fit. It was jerking back and forth, not closing or opening all the way.
And my feeling about that is that somebody else would look at that and say: “Oh, that door has the hiccups.” Whereas a little kid would walk up to that door and might very well shrink away from even going near it. And say: “It wants to eat me, it’s alive!” Children see things from a different perspective.
And in that sense I’m childlike. I looked at the door and I thought: “Gee, that would make a good story if that thing came alive and somebody walked up to it and CHUNG!” Which is a very childish sort of fantasy.
People respond to this perspective. It doesn’t really die. It atrophies1 and lies dormant.2 And I get paid to show people that different perspective. It’s like exercising a muscle, rather than letting it go slack. But I’ll tell you a funny thing. There are writers who look like children. They’ve used this facility so much for so long that they literally look like children.

Ray Bradbury is sixty years old and he has the face of a child. You see it in the eyes a lot of the time. Isaac Singer has the eyes of a child in that old face. They look out of that old face and they’re very young.
That’s why people pay writers and artists. That’s the only reason we’re around. We’re excess baggage. I can’t even fix a pipe in my house when it freezes. I am a dickey bird on the back of civilization.
I have no skill that improves the quality of life in a physical sense at all. The only thing I can do is say: “Look here, this is the way you didn’t look at it before. It’s just a cloud to you, but look at it, doesn’t it look like an elephant?” Somebody says: “Boy! it does look like an elephant!” And for that, people pay because they’ve lost all of it themselves.
You know, I’m like a person who makes eyeglasses for the mind.
—1979 interview from Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King

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3/29/05 - In the days and weeks leading up to Easter Sunday, Vatican officials (finally) decided to target Dan Brown's book as espousing heresy against the Catholic Church, with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone referring to the book as "a sack full of lies." I wish I had thought of it, but it was Jon Stewart last week who witfully noted that bookstores and libraries are full of other books that are full of lies; it's called the "fiction section." - Greg's Previews on Da Vinci Code, Yahoo! Movies

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