Senseless and Sensitivity is the graphic and emotional story of a talented actor-poet, who adopted a gay lifestyle and died at age 29 from self-destructive habits. His poetry and journals reveal his life struggle to balance his noble ambitions and qualities against his demons. His father provides a biographical framework, and describes coping with his son’s last illness, and finding a path through grief and guilt to healing. What is the best general relationship between parents and their adult children?