Mavens & Muses
Traveling To The All Night Song by: jojo woods
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Traveling to the All Night Song
We're sometimes introduced to people when wandering place like Tumblr. These people move us. Or, they are perpetually moving. There are bits and pieces of our soul craving to break through. You may want to reach some destination, but living is the journey. Meet a Trucker. His Tumblr site is www.allnightsong.tumblr.com (photos and poetry are original and owned by allnightsong.)
A Voyage Lemon Springs Valley is the place that I am seeking though it does not yet exist it will once I have found it becoming real for all when it spreads itself below . Along a well worn road no traveller has ever travelled I will walk beneath the swaying boughs the dappled rippling golden leaves following the curving path towards a sparkling sapphire river whose waters fresh and new are like some god’s elixir . It is every place that never was all dreams of warmth and home in one unspoiled because it’s freshly born a vision of where we were meant to be from the beginning days of childlike wonder when time stretched out it’s tail eternal and all things were still possible to be before we forgot how to walk learning only to run . I will not obey the laws they have proclaimed as if the universe must answer to them and a vision of reality confined and controlled I know there is this valley somewhere hidden in plain sight by old truths and I will find it and I’ll go there to a place where peace isn’t just a word and there is no hope because none is needed when we have all we could want . I’m going yes I’m going Come with me yes you can Choose to be yourself at last But if not today you are still welcome We’ll mark the path clear leave the lights on long and welcome you home When you come
There lamp in a distant window becomes a muted strobe light in the evening autumn rain I see fractals where none exist just a pixellated face ashamed of being drawn into sordid fantasies acted out in old shoe boxes dioramas of the mundane that lie hidden behind a red lace curtain hung from the bedroom arch in another life
M & M : Let's start with allnightsong. Does it have any meaning for you? What is the meaning behind the title? If not , at least. what does it represent in your mind? Also, tell us more about " Facilis descenus averni " .
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ANS (allnightsong) : Okay. The name. Well, I've spent most of my life working nights. Over half of my driving career has been spent working overnights but I'm a true night person, so I've always enjoyed that. So originally I intended to use allnightlong, not in any way as an innuendo, but as a reflection of how I live and as a sort of homage to the song and video of the same name by Peter Murphy. But, it was, of course, already taken. Probably by some porn Tumblr. I never checked. I wanted to keep the night aspect, so I was thinking (something I do occasionally) and Allnightsong jumped to mind. Partly reflecting my passion for music, partly reflecting my belief that everybody's life is, in a way, a song that they are trying to get others to notice and hear. Plus the phrase "those in the dark singing their all night song" popped into my head. I typed it in,but wasn't taken, and ANS came to be.
M & M: Would you say that life on the road has improved your writing experience? What is something that is similar about trucking and poetry/ writing to you?Â
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ANS (allnightsong) : Life on the road has definitely improves my writing experience, both in exposing me to the complexity and interconnectivity of our shared human experience and also by providing me ample time to over think the shit out of everything. And driving professionally can be a somewhat pretentious metaphor for being a poet. Poets try to use language to approach an emotion/experience/subject that is common and relatable and give it their own interpretation. Just as there is a common surface similarity to driving below which each drivers individual experience becomes unique.
M & M: Life must be different for you in that Big White Volvo you call home most of the time. What goes through your mind mostly while driving, and listening to music. Is this where your words come to you, or does it happen when the 18 wheels stop turning?
ANS (allnightsong) :
Ah. I am prone to over thinking and over analyzing. My mind is pretty active and my version of linear thought isn't always coherent to others. Something catches my attention or pops into my head and my mind will begin making connections that can lead any random direction. Music especially can start me off on odd angles. Common subjects though include history, string theory, multiverse and temporal theory, cultural and societal influence on the human experience, subjective and objective reality, sex, and the infinite. As for words, fiction will begin unwinding it's tale most often when I'm moving. It's like having a passenger riding shotgun describing their life. Poems come at random when they want to. A word, feeling, image or phrase can trigger one. But for me poems "come out". So I try not to think of them while driving. If I can't write them down or hang on to the words and feel I lose it. It goes away like it's done it's job and has moved on.
M & M: Music plays an integral role in your trucking lifestyle, it seems. Visual Mini Road Trip question. Your soundtrack. in these eras; 8 track song? Vinyl song? Cassette song? CD song? MP3 file song? Your audiophile symphony while in the "Horse"?
ANS (allnightsong) : Okay. I'll name the first song I associate with each format8track tape- "Starship Troopers" Yes Vinyl- "Children of the Sun" Billy Thorpe Cassette tape- "Another Perfect Day" Motörhead CD- "Testure" Skinny Puppy MP3- "How We Operate" Gomez I listen to CD'S, MP3's and terrestrial radio on the road. I had Sirius/XM in my previous truck because it was provided by my company, but it didn't impress me enough to pay for it myself. I grew up with commercial radio, so I still enjoy that odd thrill of suddenly hearing a cool song unexpectedly. I do have a driving playlist on Google Play Music called, yes, The Allnightsong. And my truck, each one, is always The Horse.