Estragon: (giving up again) Nothing to be done.
Vladimir: (advancing with short, stiff strides, legs wide apart) I’m beginning to come around to that opinion. All my life I’ve tried to put it from me, saying, Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven’t yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.
—from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for GodotI was born in Lynwood California at a very early age (hee!) into a working class family (daddy was a WWII vet, and mama was an actual Rosie the Riveter) that liked to drink… a lot. Many nights as a little kid, I would fall asleep behind the bar (where they drank) on a shelf filled with bar towels (which I used for pillows), cleaning products (which I was warned not to eat) and a sawed off baseball bat that the bartender used when the drunks got too “carefree!”
At 18, I tried working in the factories… didn’t like it. So, I joined the U.S Marine Corps, and… my Marine Corps, in its infinite wisdom, sent me to Vietnam… as a gosh darn cook! Honestly, my adventures as a “combat ready, Marine Corps cook” wasn’t anything compared to what a lot of my brother Marines went through. I’ve written a play about my experiences in Nam and maybe two or three poems… but that’s it.
When I got out of the Corps, I went to college, got drunk… a lot. Also did some other things, like falling in love too many, many times to count. I discovered my true calling in college… theatre. Got two degrees in it and now teach at a small university in New Mexico.
Been writing poetry forever it seems, but it was here at NMHU—about five years ago—that I really got into it, writing anywhere between one to three poems a week. I’ve produced two plays based on my poetry, My Cream Colored Psychedelic Flashback and Welcome to the Freak Show. The two writers who have influenced my work most are T.S. Eliot (specifically his Prufrock) and Samuel Beckett (quoted above). I ramble quite a bit in my poetry… like I am in this bio. Major topic: my life… or somewhere in that vicinity.
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- I am a 61 year old man from New Mexico (United States)
- When I'm not writing, I'm teaching acting....
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Yeah, we've all been there! You write a great poem (the greatest poem ever written by man, woman), you enter it in a contest and... you don't get zilch! Not even an hm! w1600 points, ends December 4, 1 entries In Big points, Contest
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33 lines, 8 comments, November 14. In Adult... maybe.
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1. Do you believe something is going to happen in or around 2012? YES! Hollywood will finely figure out how to do CGI properly!
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Where does the gray wolf lie?
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I'm just a drip, a single drop of falling rain...
a tiny stain upon the carpet of this world.22 lines, 10 comments, November 12. In loneliness
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September 25, In Adult, Crime, Horror, Humor, Short story or at least a start. 700 words. → Make first comment?
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I told abu I would post this pic so he could see the kind of winters we have in NM. This was a few years ago here where I live in Las Vegas, NM. P.S. You might want to take it up to maybe 150 to 200 %.September 23, → 3 comments, Add one?
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A few years back, I think, I got a chance to watch the first season of this Show Time series called Dexter. It's about a serial killer who only kills other serial killers. Although the idea is not new, the way Show Time handles the series makes it so unique. Just last night I picked up season 2. Boy, it's still aSeptember 23, 200 words. → 9 comments, Add one?
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Concrete Angel on October 6Hmmm... thought you were already on my faves... well you are now
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arthyria on September 28
somehow your experiences remind me of what some protagonists of tennessee williams' plays. Have you read any? -
Miss Macabre : Hey on September 25I'm signing guest books! Why haven't I done this earlier?! This is fun! Woo! Sorry, lol. I'm just being goofy. ^.^ And you are victim #2 of my guest book signing spree. I struck redmoonnrizing first.
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Veronica-Armijo : Hello on August 28Hey Professor Woods,
You got some great stuff here. I look forward to reading it all.
Veronica
