SplashScribe Soft Words - Mud-Tracking With SplashHall Poet Silty AKA Jesse Lagoon

Thank you all so much for your appreciation and encouragement on my interview with Brenda.

I’ve been following Jesse Lagoon’s silty trail for a week now. The trail leads into deeper waters, in the black lagoons that he prefers to stay in. He was pretty reluctant to come out and play Q&A with me… but in the end, we’ve made a pretty cool job of it. Dear Splashers, here is your christmas treat.

SW: What brought you to SplashHall?
silty: Dodjie found my remains in a bayou and resurrected me on the internet with mystical Asian voodoo.

SW: What keeps you here?
silty: Anonymous criticism and just enough friendship to make me care.

SW: Your favorite forum(s)?
silty: I like the Ax. I can find enough people in the real world to skim my poems and tell me “that’s cool”. It’s much more interesting when I can find people who will read through a poem completely and tell me why it sucks.

SW: Your favorite Splashers?
silty: I’m kind of a poetry whore so I have to say everyone whose poems I get the chance to read

SW: When did you start writing?
silty: While I was just a young and naive tadpole writing became one of the few things I care about in this uncertain and hypocritical world, along with reading. Writing is still one of the few things I feel control over.

SW: Do I see you on the other forums besides the Ax? If no, why not?
silty: Why go anywhere but the Ax? I hope I have the balls to get my ass handed to me by a literary assassin if it makes me a stronger, faster and better samurai poet. The Ax honors my ancestors and myself. (bows elegantly)

SW: Has your writing changed since you discovered these halls to Splash in?
silty: Yeah. I’m more careful now, you never know how bad a piece may be torn apart so I try to kick it up a notch from the start.

SW: Favorite authors/poets (outside Splash)?
silty: E.E. cummings is very cool. I recommend his “Non-Lectures” to anyone with existential angst, he manages to capture beauty through the dirty and tragic lens of our reality. Ummmm…Philip K. Dick should be canonized and his mind-fuck stories will have you down on all fours begging for more.

SW: What do you think are the strongest influences on your writing besides the black waters?
silty: Sacred mantras, sacred herbs and a stupid sense of humor.

SW: What are your other interests, hobbies and passions, besides keeping them feet silty?
silty: I love tennis actually. I like to pretend I’m playing baseball so I feel really good about myself. I’m also going to school so that’s been commanding my interest for a while now.

SW: Describe your experiences in the lagoon orchestra... Are you a lead singer?
silty: How’d you know? My throaty howl will take us to the top of the pops where I can then write jingles for car commercials which is what I’ve always really wanted to do.

SW: Tell me... your three favorite authors, three favorite movies, and three favorite sing-a-long tunes in your car.
silty: Three authors would be Philip K. Dick, John Irving and Alan Moore. Movies would be O Brother Where Art Thou, The Fifth Element and the South Park Movie. Sing-along tunes? I make up my own gibberish lyrics when I sing along actually, so it doesn’t really matter what the song is.

SW: If I were a genie in a bottle, and offered you three wishes, which ones would you want?
silty: Freedom from the chains of this physical world. I don’t think I would need the other two.

SW: What are your poetic ambitions like?
silty: I want to write poems that will make me laugh and or smile when I’m 60 years old smoking my corn-cob pipe on the back porch.

SW: Any suggestions you might have for Rg to improve on your Splashing experience?
silty: Don’t stop now!

SW: Anything special you'd like to share with us?
silty: Not really. Thanks for sharing?

SW: Lets join in Splashers and show silty some SplashHall love. Not a Splasher? No problem. Visit silty at the SplashHall Poetry Forums Today.