Early on, the emphasis was on DRUNK. Semantically, I know I don't aspire to write. I write. However, I do aspire to be known for my writing. As an emotional-exhibitionist willing to disrobe "and go streaking thru the quad & down into the gymnasium," (Will Ferrel; Old School). Why subscribe to my sub-stack? You have never met anyone like me. I'll give you a perspective you probably would have gone your life without. And some CAN do without it. I'm alright with that - I'm not a normal person. I suffer from bi-polar depression, among other things. There have been old aquintances who I've run into at various points in my life. They always get so excited; recite some anecdote about the time we had and what I did and how crazy it was. Invariably, I'll have not remembered the crazy thing I did, and, or the aquintance. The point is, I had made some impression on them for some act of what you'll come to learn about me which is either boldness, or belligerence, courage, or insanity, genius or stupidity, or somewhere in between. With my writing, I wish to make such impressions on you. "I'd rather be a walking metamorphosis," (Rahul Seixas; Metamorfose Ambulante), anyway; I have a lot to learn.
By Fred Clark Jr.
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