#instawrimochallenge number 20: "Something old, something new." When I was in my early 20s, I was a rambunctious rapscallion. I recited #freeverse #slampoetry , skating to perform at youth venues like #Warehouse21, or at my college at the time, #stjohns ... Or, if it was too far to #skateboard , I'd stick up a thumb and hitch a ride. Fearless to a fault! I was published in the student 'zine, The #grout ; and the college newspaper, The #moon (although I'm still salty for the few times they misformatted my work). I even got a big break writing for the Santa Fe #reporter 2014 music special! I got autographs from #poets, #authors, and literal #knights. Seriously, I got Sir Christopher Ricks to sign my #battlejacket after an academic lecture, like a #rockstar after a #concert. I started my Undead Goathead #blog around this time, about 2011. Now I may be close to #publishing my first book ever - a collection of #poems. I am working on a fantasy series. I am improving my blog. I have been published in #AgainstMagazine, #SleepingVillageReviews, and #EntelodonRecords. I also want to publish a #memoir and/or #autobiography someday. I'm not quite as ostentatious about the whole #smoking and #drinking thing anymore, but I'm still not ashamed of it either. My rough edges have softened significantly. But try as I might, I can never truly be straightlaced and narrow. Even when I spend an hour (or more) trying to tame my wild hair, there are always rebellious waves and bumps. I'm au nauturale, baby! #Headbanger to the bitter end! I still have burning #passion inside me, but now it's less like a raging wildfire, and more like smoldering embers. But it's still seething within. I'm just a little more mature now. And just plain exhausted. But I will never stop fighting the good fight. Never. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQxuvnPLVe/?utm_medium=tumblr
