A true folk artist wouldn’t worry about the purity of what he was doing.
about the author: 
Joe Weil is a lecturer at SUNY Binghmaton and has several collections of poetry out there, A Portable Winter (with an introduction by Harvey Pekar), The Pursuit of Happiness, What Remains, Painting the Christmas Trees, and, most recently, The Plumber's Apprentice, published by New York Quarterly Press. He makes his home in Vestal, New York.