The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Why do I say this? Some people are not very deep thinkers and that's being nice. They're about as deep as a cupcake holder and again, that's being nice. I say this in response to some comments I received regarding a book I wrote. The comments weren't even mean or negative, but they were the kind of comments where I was stunned into silence, with one question lingering in my mind, "What?" I wrote a book of poetry and released that a while back. At the very start of the book, the introduction, I wrote about my inspirations, my influences and my intentions. There were three major intentions with the book: 1) To provoke thought, 2) To open minds and 3) To touch on emotions. I tried to write many of them in a novel format, where there's a main character, thoughts and feelings of that main character are expressed and the message or moral of the story is known by the end. There were other poems where I took on controversial issues, tackled politics, religion an...