Take a journey back to the '70s when life was simpler or was it? Here, Richard Vetere offers a collection of 8 short stories that form a memoir of life in New York and its boroughs for a teenager with long greasy hair, blue jeans and jacket, and brown suede shows a tossup between the poet Lord Byron and Paul Newman's character in The Hustler. From a Woodstock without music at Hot Dog Beach on Memorial Day Weekend to a North Eighth Street romance with a knockout sexy babe named Georgia, you'll play literary wingman. The book's title comes from an admonition by his pal Sal while they're working a grave fillers at Mount Olivet cemetery, great advice for wise guy kids. "I grew up in Queens and never wanted to be anything else but a published poet," writes Vetere. As you will discover, he achieved that goal.