Warren Dean
took the Grind Café Writers’ Group “Free-write Challenge” at this year’s Summer
Dreams Literary Arts Festival at Trout Lake, Vancouver. The brave drew random
prompts then took a break from the fest to go sit under a tree, and let it rip
for 10 minutes without stopping in a free-write—and see what emerged. Braver
yet, they agreed to let us post their raw version. So remember, this is
unedited, unfinished output. Thanks to all participants.
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Prompt:
If you could choose a different time period to live in, when would it
be? And why then?
I’ve
long been obsessed with the 1960s: the freedom, the changes in culture and
society, the challenges on a global scale to the status quo, those with
control. I would have loved to have been around in 1961 at the University of
British Columbia, when the TISH group of poets were first raising eyebrows.
I
would have enjoyed hitch-hiking down to San Francisco and further down to
Mexico and into South America. Being an active member of the Beat Generation,
making ripples in the poetic pool of the world through publishing, readings,
happenings.
During that decade I would have been one of those to not just
follow, but help lead. I would share love, peace, passion, the light and dark
of the universe, expanding knowledge of all things. I write, write, write,
live, live, live, be like Kerouac, Ginsberg, bill bissett, D.A. Levy, etc. Peace.
©2013
Warren Dean Fulton
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