Be committed to something outside yourself.

Be passionate about it.

If you would snatch a fame from the flames, where is your burning bow, where your arrows of desire, where your wit on a fire?

When the poet lets down is pants, his 'arse poetica' should be evident, giving rise to lyric erections.

The master class starts wars, the lower classes fight them. Governments lie. The voice of the government is often not the voice of the people.

Speak up. Act out. Silence is complicity.

Be the gadfly of the state and also the firefly.

And if you have two loaves of bread, do as the Greeks did -- sell one and with the coin of the realm buy sunflowers.

Wake up, the world is on fire!

Have a nice day.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti