My book, Poems Mostly of the Sea, is now available for purchase on Amazon! The Kindle edition bundles free with the paperback, if you want it to. There may be some minor changes made as I get the second proof and pick a few nits, but the benefit of this form of publishing is that I will absolutely be able to make them, with only a few days for review.
I joined the Navy when I was 19, to combat elements of myself I did not know how to live with. This is something I have had mixed feelings about over the years. I joined during the Forever Wars, which I was strongly opposed to, but my moral code isn't really the reason I washed out during Service School: to quote the Waybacks, "they caught me reading On the Road /and threw me on my ass /there were a bunch of other factors/ which I won't enumerate". Still, it became part of me. The decision to join the Navy led my life in new directions I never could have predicted, and was ultimately a good one. I have never been prouder of it than I was today, when I wore my US Navy uniform hat to join the millions of Americans at No Kings rallies across the country. I was only in for five months. That's five months longer than the man who just wasted 148 million dollars on a giant military parade while waging war on his own citizens in LA. I will continue to do all I can to ...
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