Butch Decatoria Biography

Www.Hellopoetry.com/butchdecatoria. Turns 45 years this Lions' Day, August 10th,2019 —in the heat of Sin City, where innocence comes to die. I simply try to be inspired by love and life, they say write what you know, and i have been lucky enough to have been introduced to poetry early on. I know and believe in this —the poet & the beautiful world's heart / soul / truth.

" The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own, " Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin.

A mix of Irish & Filipino, I was born in the nation of 7000 islands, in the city of Olongapo, near Subic Bay. Father was in the military, my mother was a maid, but they never married. Immigrated to U.S. in ‘81 and feel as American as the next, English my only language, written or spoken—words I shape to beautiful...

I aspire to leave behind something beautiful & worthwhile, and t hope it creates good ripples to make the world better than I had left it. To inspire others, to be memorialized and immortalized by these gifts I leave behind. Death by beautiful songs sung, words hung in the stars on high. A poet artist who's heart and soul for ever shines, Thank you for taking the time to get to know me...

Peace be with you.