I have to lose myself if I’m going to create good art. All these poems that start with “I” are worthless. It was when I was meditating and putting unconditional love out into the world and remaining unattached to my material pursuits that I was creating good and honest art. Now I’m all caught up in my job and trying to make money and so focused on myself that my stream of consciousness is ego-obsessed. That stream is where I get my art. It’s no wonder I can’t get any art from a stream full of only one thing. I need to open myself up to the world, and lose myself, and stop writing so much about “I.”