It is a passage that fits your feelings like a comfortable old jacket
or a phrase that gives you a whiff from the jar of truth distilled
the conclusion from an new idea or the tangent that's taken
that brings you to another tangent, another tangent, / another tangent /

a lineage, a family tree of thought growing in perpetuity,
commonalities weaving a figure eight like rainbow eels at play,
concepts becoming relevant, becoming a binding common thread.

Because the words make you believe, speak to your heart and your
intellect: proFound and happy for it

or the possibility of you passing the gift along to another, in home-made wrapping and ribbon, growing the tree fed by the water and sunshine of inspiration and the realization that these things exist for the taking and to fill the mind's feed bag or to look at the world with meaning and story.

The ignorant and/or untouched cry, "Escapism and cowardice!!"
but it's noble-history-important: IMPORTANT.

Because Dylan led to Ginsberg led to Whitman led to Emerson and Pinsky led to Dostoyevski and Vonnegut and Stutz led to Joyce and Faulkner.

Because I like it and it makes me feel good.

Forget your porn rags and must-see-tv for a blink of the life's eye and taste something
a little sweeter.

you will not forget what you know, you will just fill a vacancy in your heart.

Art and love are the only reasons to keep going.

Matt Greiner is a 24 year old aspiring writer/musician who is frequently frustrated. These words are not gospel, they are merely an idea he had one day. The same can be said for almost everything he tries to do creatively. On to the next idea.....