william60
william60
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Bio
Hello,
Allow me to bore you for a minute. Well, I was born in 1960 within the lights of Las vegas into a family of performers. After two years, shipped off to New Hampshire and at the age of 17 I moved to the Big Apple!
I have been living for 33 years in New York City and have worn many masks during my journey within this amazing city. During the 80's and early 90's I worked in sales, training dogs, as a model, a professional actor appearing in theater, commercials and principal roles on 2 soap operas, however, never landing a contract role. That's LIfe!, as I said many masks!
My life as a performer took a back seat as life steered me into a new direction. I focused my energies on the restuarant/ bar business, eventually running a bar until I met my wife, a brilliant lawyer, who inspired me to get out of the rest./ bar business due to a second love of booze. LOL! A marriage has the ability to make changes in a mans life(LOL). Since that time, almost 12 years ago, I have worked in Real Estate and began driving a cab,(hence, the name The Hack Poet), when as we all know the real estate markets fell apart. Like they say, necessity is the mother of invention and as a New York cab driver the poetry/prose (whatever it is) was born inside of me. Believe me, 12 hours of driving a cab could inspire one to do many things, my observations and interactions with so many varied people were invaluable. When your sitting in the front seat of a cab, your given a new pair of eyes to see humanity as it passes you by. In 2013 I retired and am considering going back to school or who knows???
I had no choice but to begin to put my thoughts and observations into a creative form. I must say quite a surprise to me being I always hated writing, but that being said, I truly enjoy this new form of creative expression. To be honest, I was always afraid of writing. I'm breaking out in WORD PRESS! 😎
My Poetry/Prose or whatever you'd like to call it, runs the gambit one might say, every topic from politics, spiritual, family, love, war, government, my life experiances, and recovery. Some with a touch of humor, some without, if I missed one please forgive It is a lot of fun to let a poem take on it's own life and free my thoughts. I hopefully end up reading something I've just written, liking it, posting it, then realizing all the typos and other stuff I want to change. Oh well. Update time, all with one button.
What is most important to me, as an artist and as a writer, that my work is imagery rich and emotionally honest! I hope when the curtian rises opening night, you"ll be entertained by my one act play.
At the age of 53 a new journey has begun, a an exciting chapter in my life. The cab is gone, but the spirit remains! I'm not working and by the grace of God have the opportunity to take my time I'm creating a new path. Life is great! 🙏🙏🙏
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