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Born in Guelph, Ontario in 1948. In 1959-61, he lived in Egypt and Iraq while his father worked for the World Health Organization. After high school, he attended Glendon College and then the main campus of York University, completing a BA and MA in English, and studying with a number of worthy writers: Irving Layton, Miriam Waddington, Eli Mandel, Frank Davey, Hédi Bouraoui, William Gardner. In 1973-74, he lived in Kyoto, Japan. Returning to Canada, he worked for Coach House Press, briefly for the Charlottetown, PEI newspaper The Guardian-Patriot and in communications for York University and the accounting firm then named Deloitte Haskins + Sells.During this period, he twice attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (summer writing school) at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he worked with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Robert Duncan, William Burroughs, and others.He now teaches English at Centennial College in Toronto, and runs a micro-mini press, Sixth Floor, which produces chapbooks (no unsolicited submissions, please))

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Nightmare

Imagine you, i do, i think about you day and night its true, in my dreams were happy together
Day and night its only right to dream about the girl you love and hold her tight, forever and ever
If i were to wake up and know your mine, the very air i'd breath would be so fine, but sadly that's not true
Imagine if it's you and me, me and you, unfortunately that's not true
i can dream a dream but what's a dream going to do
I've been dreaming so long that i know it's not true
A Nightmare is all it's become

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