The Islands and the Beast

I Loved the Poem just the way it was, I was just remembering in about 1978 I was sitting in a Denney's in lake-city [ in Seattle ] and again my lack of education I was looking for the spelling of a word, so I asked a gentleman if he knew how to spell the word in question. and he did, then he asked what I was writing and I told him, thoughts observations and poetry... he smiled and asked if he could read some , and I said sure. soon after he was reading aloud and critiquing, at first I was embarrassed, but his command of the language, and his vocal presence was amazing, a wonderful speaking voice animated and crisp. so I listened and finally asked who he was and we introduced our selves,turns out He was the dean of writing and poetry at a fancy college in California, I believe the name was chabot. Any way not to waste your time, he made many corrections to my way of writing and one of them he told me to quit using the word and. only if it was needed. so I Quit. and it made a big change. so now it's some thing I just notice. my comment was just a personal view. I hope you understand. John