Thanks for your kindness.  I’ve been told by others as well that it takes a second thought or a third read to get the gist of my verse/prose.  That’s kind of the exercise, really.  To paint with broad strokes of colorful notions....  I’ve found that more can be said in a group of sentences by speaking in metaphor or simile or the occasional run-on

sentence & broad use of artistic license,

...&, therein, one gets the added bonus of music. 

But then on the flipside.

Jack Nicholson’s character, Melvin Udall in As Good as it Gets, said something to the effect of:  “People who speak in metaphors should clean my shorts....”

...so I suppose just as many think I’m an azz, for the way I write, as dig it.

A friend turned me on to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, The American Scholar.  If that isn’t an example of painting with notions, I don’t know what is.  I know people who wouldn’t bother to read it, even under duress, but it is well worth the read ~~

even a revisit;  ...don’t mind if I do.

...stay gold....