[Asubmarine]

It makes me happy that you're a beat fan. Have you listened to Ginsberg read? I've got a recording of him reciting "Kaddish" (amongst other things) and it's fantastic.
I'd probably claim the beats as one of my main influences on how i try to choose words and arrange my poems rhythmically, Ginsberg and Gary Snyder are prob the two i read and enjoy most. And although he's not a beat I find myself similarly inclined towards the poetry of Charles Bernstein. I've also drawn alot from the images of culturally different poets like Garcia Lorca and Basho.

Consumerism sounds interesting. One of those areas that is open to alot of innovative interpretation because its a new concept, but would also be easy to slip into cliche. From your other posts I have no doubt you'll take the innovative route lol.

My MW is a collection of relatively short free verse poems (some haikai) that try to combine the philosophies on nature of different cultures' poetic movements. It's a re-interpretation of traditional eastern views on the connection between man and nature.

I'm not really regular in the time it takes to write a poem. On a good day i'll get 2 or 3 poems done like 100-180 words (maybe a little more) but then will find myself cutting it down for the next week. This is probably because of the shortness of the poems and how much i find myself just skimming through and wanting to make changes. Am currently at the 1700 word mark.