My Platform
A book is about its own conditions of production.
Also, what were you trying to do, and how well do you think you succeeded.
My platform is I produced a body of work, my stack, invented a form to present it in, daily typewriting, and found a medium to get it out to the reader through, a web site on the worldwide web and self-published pamphlets.
How did I earn a living, support a wife and kids, be a parent, a grandfather, an employee, a colleague, a friend to kindred spirits? Did I advance the discipline? Did I contribute to the community I live in?
What was my emotional state? That is, how did I cope with fear, envy, anger, and depression?
Writing isolates a person.
Writing in the absence of a career, or in the presence of a lesser, second-rate career, takes its toll.
WRITER is a success story.
It’s David and Goliath.
I’m David. Goliath is
If you can make it there you can make it anywhere.
But what if you don’t make it there for 39 years? Does that sour you?
Or do you give
I cock a snook at
The snook is a game fish.
You used to could
catch snook in downtown
In the canal, where the turds and rubbers floated up, Saturday morning.
We used to eat them. Turds to the contrary notwithstanding.
Robala abodabo. Snook in ancho chile sauce. Hot peppers kill germs.