A word about the novel
As stated I am a self trained writer/poet, what does this mean? Well, I am not your usual collage trained writer, nor did I read books on how to write.I did not say to myself that I would learn how to write so I could come up with novels about vampires, or books about secret messages in "codes", in other words I did not start out thinking i would write to be rich and famous.I do not read books to learn how to become rich and famous, I also do not read books that you would find on supermarket shelves normally.Yes I do read books found in book stores, and I have read a lot of books that only certain people would know about. I started out reading a lot of poetry, and my interest became very eclectic.So, i became interested in the Surrealist movement.As, I had wanted to be an artist, but my life took the path of poetry.For me it was a journey through reading as much of the best thinkers, and writers that seemed to be at home in the strange, and the magical, and also philosophy became a large part of this.For me it has been a long slow process, to find my own voice, as it were, I finally thought to write a novel on how I became a poet, a novel that would weave a story through the poetic prose.I then realized that I would have to begin in the beginning, before I wrote poetry, and that is how I came up with Gone Hallucinogen Freeway.This is then a chronicle of those times, it tells about the music, the friends, the wild child 67, 68, 69's when a lot of teenagers were searching for alternative ways to be creative, to question things, to explore the mind manifesting context we seemed to be entering coming out of the gray 50's.And yes, it was about sex , drugs, and rock and roll.But over and above that, the novel, is about a journey, that involved in this situation the use of psychedelics, it tells about one teenagers entering that journey, and describes a series of trips, as the reader enters the first trip with me, we go on a ride through the dream like landscape of the psychic changes the teenager goes through.Each trip builds to the next one, while the world goes on around, the trip goes on a trip, he meets the guides and the fellow travelers, that are either the girls he finds along the way or his brother trippers.Either way he wants to leave mental note bread crumbs in the maze of his experience, so some day he can return and remember where he had been, and what he has seen and felt.This then is my story, where it begins, like Jim Morrison said, "this is the best part of the trip, this is the trip, the best part i really like."