I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.