On The Road With Al & Ivy: A Homeless Literary Chronicle - July 16th, 2017
"I wasn't scared, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost..." - Jack Kerouac (On The Road - The Original Scroll) ...of eternal vigilance... One of the themes that runs through my upcoming book is that being homeless wasn't just some change in lifestyle. It was a profound psychological journey that evolved through several stages starting with denial, but there wasn't an even symmetry or pattern of emotions. I briefly described in the last blog entry that the early 80s poetry manuscript evolved into a story about a fall from grace and redemption and that is my book in a nutshell. It's probably how I'd explain it in an interview to make sure it fit into a neat soundbite or quote, but it's certainly not how it all felt at the time. There were a series of emotional stages or phases, but it came on in a chaotic sequence, and there was no linear narrative. The opening stage was certainly ...