Henry Porter Green Pond, South Carolina | | I was born in the back seat of a greyhound bus traveling down highway 41. I ran away from home and was taken in by a traveling gypsy woman who tied me to the wagon wheel so that I would get around. Then I ran away and joined the circus. They put me in the sideshow but I didn't like it much so I snuck up to the frontshow. Later, I got a job in the great north woods but one day the ax just fell. so I motorvated down to new Orleans and became a Bob Dylan imitator. Nobody noticed so I drifted up the coast on the Intercoastal Waterway, landed in jail in New York City for starting a peaceful riot. Never did like it all that much. So I got a riding lawnmower and drove it across the country, met up with a little gal; called herself Camellia Gocart. We drove them till the wheels fell off and burned. So then she thumbed a Diesel down in the pouring rain. I pulled out my red bandanna and we sang that trucker all the way into New Orleans - but then, the streets of Rome. Did I tell you about the streets of Rome? Me and that little gal walked and painted that town like it was going out of busyness. But we split up on a dark sad night both agreeing it was best. That's about all. I hitch-hiked on an ocean liner back to where I was from. Got me a job in an unemployment office and became a regular joe, all the while remembering my dream of becoming a next elvis. Wrote a song for everyone and wrote a song for you. Wrote a memo to the president but it was returned to sender. Now I'm semi-retired and living in Catcando, Allerroo. | What do you do for a living?
Repair work, motel clerk, and now I just finished truck-driving school. I’m going to be a trucking cowboy la de da, ha ha. Who are your favorite artists?
I have no favorite now. My history is beat generation as you can tell from my story “Lloyd and Hillwill”. I read anything and anybody. I hope I don’t become as fascinated with any writer as I have in the past. Bob Dylan and A. Ginsburg influenced me much. Kerouac is evident still in my prose. The scope of Bukowski’s talent has reached me staggering this last year What influences you to write about/how you do?
Reading influences me to write. I write after I read something artistic. I write after mishearing something said. I like to shuffle the puzzle. I’m a big fan of other peoples’ work. When I read, I write. When I don’t read, I’m too busy to claim the artist’s life—which is too often lately Where do you see the underground writing scene in 25 years?
The underground scene in 25 years? Who can guess? As diverse as there are writers. Now it gives a people the chance to develop a style without being over taught. I think a lot of writers are having their best raw material schooled out of them in seminars and conferences. Venues like such as this (thehold) give people a chance to let it rip without the critical eye of teaches and editors who think in classifications and convention.As Ken Kesey said, “To hell with all that reflection, just get out there and see what shadows we cast.” from cait - describe yourself -all the way up til this day -every deTALE ..heh.. AND just for fun...what would you do for a klondike bar...be clever.. beera -
Describe meself. Sunset hippie bohemian toltex Taoist misfit eccentric toker contrarian libertarian flyer cowboy nonconformist slacker dreamer surrealist walker loner expatriate poor white trash proud all too humanTrade you my good bar | |