I am here to write, read, and have fun, and I have been doing all of those. My work is rarely autobiographical, and mostly "love" poems, although I have branched out into some erotic poems. My passion is to get into a mindset, play with the ideas that come out, and write about them. YES, VERBAL AND I ARE ENGAGED IN REAL LIFE. (I figured it was time to get rid of the hedging, since our profiles already say we are engaged.) I feel happy and lucky and in love. Thanks to all who have congratulated us

I LOVE to laugh and enjoy playful banter. I dislike when people are unkind to one another. I do my best to be kind to everyone. Don't expect me to engage when, in my estimation, behavior is inappropriate or designed to elicit conflict. Such behavior will be ignored - I prefer to avoid conflict in my personal life. Go find someone else to bother.

I really am not great about posting pictures on people's pages - I know that is a big part of this site, and I don't mind having friends post pictures (if they are not pornographic or explicit ("They won't make me like you and they will be deleted")) but I don't care if you do, or not. I hope you will be similarly tolerant with me. If I am your friend, I am your friend. I would rather receive a message, and I would rather send a message, unless I come across a picture I think is particularly appropriate for a friend.

Interests
Kind, interesting people. Things that make me laugh. My family. CAKE. Cats. True crime and forensics shows. Reading. Writing poetry. And, my adored and adoring Gumball. His love and cheer sustain me.

Favorite Books
The Magic Mountain; Middlemarch; House of Mirth; The Age of Innocence; The Custom of the Country; Pride and Prejudice; Northanger Abbey; Emma; Mansfield Park; Sense and Sensibility; Buddenbrooks; The Paris Wife; The Good Earth; Angle of Repose; Imagining Argentina; Baby Driver; A Year in Van Nuys; Seventeenth Summer; A Little Princess; A Traveler in Time; Anne of Green Gables

Favorite Authors
Thomas Mann; George Eliot; Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Joyce Carol Oates; Pearl Buck; Wallace Stegner; Peter Taylor; Sandra Tsing Loh; Jan Kerouac; Donna Tartt; Joyce Carol Oates; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron); Percy Shelley; Emily Dickinson; Sylvia Plath

Favorite TV Shows
Seinfeld. New Adventures of Old Christine. The Nanny. Investigation Discovery (entire channel). Forensic Files. Snapped.