Through the "cooking" and reducing of thoughts, and their distillation into such poems as those included here in The Max Collection of Max's Writings, I am provided a clearer view of my life and a humble rationale for my existence. I hope and pray that the works herein provide you with exactly the same. May you find that the writings herein evoke some universal feelings of the human condition, as well as of your own condition, and in so doing give you some food for thought and reflection. Bon appetit