My dad was basically just proud that he had a daughter who wrote a book, and so he was gonna sell it. People in Indiana are really blunt, and they tell the truth. I'm glad you wrote it. I'm like, you know, you all are crazy, and I love you. We're talking about politics and poetry.
Love poems are political.
Being able to write is political. To talk about political prisoners, and to talk about hunger, and power, and all those issues, is absolutely necessary. The people that I like do their work regardless of what the consequences are going to possibly be. What I want to do in my life, is to continue doing this, and to have an urban organic farm. I teach a lot of little kids, and they don't know where the heck milk comes from.