To begin With I will start out by sharing a little about myself.  I was born in Pasadena Texas and my parents move to a small town called Petal  Mississippi when I was only five. There I learned the level of misery a small town can create for someone who is mildly intelligent and doesn't conform to the statistical prep norm of a small, god fearing, self righteous, hypocritical, southern town.  That is not to say that all of the people there were bad or in general wished ill on me.  Let us just say that an overwhelming number of vocal community fit the above description. From there I just recently moved to Memphis Tennessee to work and must say it is fairly entertaining but smaller than I had first imagined. Having been to Houston TX and seeing what a real City looks like you just keep thinking that there is something similar.

     Now on to what started my quest to the creation of the pages you see before you.  Well I started as most did just playing around trying to see what I could do and began to create a small web site that consisted of a whole three pages.  Most likely to the dismay of anyone who managed to find my little corner then,  there was no original content.  It was serving no purpose but to show really cool graphics that I had stolen from other sites and some links to some of those sites.  Well then I began to try to show my poetry to my English Professor who was actually the poetry editor for the George Town Review.  Well let me begin by saying he wasn't exactly impressed with my Poetic prose.  I believe the first words from his mouth was, " I bet you haven't written more than a dozen poems."   Well you can image this did nothing for my ego and little for my pride.  So I decided to begin Poetic Despair.  It started as a place for me to post my Poetry and get some feed back from the public about whether I was talented or not. Suprisingly enough I received a lot of positive feed back on my generally negative poetry.  Then a Friend asked would I put her poem here and the next thing you know I have found that there are a good many poets who have quite a bit to say and no place to say it.  So they turn to the internet and here I am.