Thinking while talking, and thinking by any means I could, which meant thinking by telling stories, came to me at pretty much the same time.
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.