Professional
“Live long enough and, eventually, you ride all the ponies.” ~Aucassin Verdé
I’ve done and been paid to do many things in my life, most of them very well. I’ll leave it to you to figure out which ones I still do and those I sucked at: Writer, poet, editor, creative writing teacher, poetry workshop facilitator, musician, composer, performer, actor, acting/drama teacher, director, producer, casting, crew, sound mixing, art department, model, voice overs, location manager, radio, television, film, stage, tour guide, laborer, caregiver, audiologist, truck driver, customer service, sales manager, restaurant manager, waiter, event coordinator, civil service (10 years), business partner in computer peripherals (10 years), provisional SCTA tennis official, art curator, human doing, human being, human becoming . . . seeking similar human female.

Literary Arts
See above as I have enjoyed success in literature (not as much as some; more than others), author of one collection of poetry (The Shredded Mettle of the Heart), published extensively, won several noteworthy and monetary awards, done readings of my work across the country, three countries in Europe, in all media, and even ships at sea. I write every day, commencing to conduct an ongoing workshop, regularly maintain and/or contribute to five literary blogsites, create artographic broadsides (framable imagistic poems), edit and evaluate other’s work, frequently discharge my big fat opinion about poetry, fiction, and non-fiction alike.

Music
Multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, currently appearing in acoustic/electric trio, Romantiqk: Bittersweet songs of love for couples and broken-hearted singles. My influential and listening tastes run the full range from classical to ethnic to folk to world to darkwave to heavy metal to progressive to some country, stopping mercifully short at 99.9% of (c)rap, disco, trance, and the deservedly horrid pop-fizz that currently foams across the majority of our aerial airwaves. Gimme substance and story from the heart and I'm totally there.

Politics
Decidedly left of center. No party affiliation. Member at large in universal party of common sense and human decency which precludes any and all things Republican. No apologies. That’s the way it is. I may not be able to change it, but I certainly do not have to willfully interact with it. I do not suffer fear-mongering colossally-dunderheaded Neocons well. Just ask.

Religion
Spirituality? Yes. Stand in awe and wonder at the preciousness of life? Yes-yes.
Believe we go to either a golden-streeted, harp-clogged, seraphim-choked paradise or a bedeviled grill-yourself-for-all-eternity Hadean BBQ when this ride is over? Uh, no. Fundamentalist malorganized religion? No, thank you. It doesn’t mean I cannot enter a chapel or cathedral or synagogue or temple or some holy shrine and not feel whatever might be there to feel. However, any stray dogma I might have incurred during my lifetime has thankfully been overrun by an enlightened (if unlicensed) sense of karma and mercifully left for roadkill along the side of science and aforementioned common sense.

Health
I am far younger than my years, physically active, heart of a 22-yr old, everything works superbly. No medications of any kind except the teeming tonic of laughter & life. Avid lifelong tennis player, cycling, hiking, walking, exploring, indoor sports, travel, STD-free, well-groomed, dietarily conscious for an omnivore. I neither smoke nor imbibe alcohol, but do not mind a social drinker. No smokers--cough--thank you very much. No illegal sport drugs of any kind ingested or tolerated, including the ubiquitous silly buzzkill 420 brain-kabonger.

Sex
Hopefully coming soon. ;-) Seriously---more than adequately endowed, tantrically staminized, and believe that when two hearts entwine in that inexplicable way, there is no better way to share sensuous & erotic union. I would rather go slow, foster trust and connection, free of all expectation, and hopefully experience what the stars seek to lavish. I am after all Scorpio and we rule this aspect of human interaction. Have no doubt.

Meanwhile, as you seek to find someone worthy of your gifts in sifting through all the immature and disingenuous losers I've heard so much about from many of you, please feel free to further examine who and what I am about along with samples of my work (which is ultimately what really matters most to me in my sensing of the world) at the following literary sites:

http://drachenthrax.blogspot.com/
http://goldcoastwriters.blogspot.com/
http://mystic-lit.blogspot.com/search/label/Joseph%20Gallo

Finally, my user name is NOT the iconic vampire, Lestat, from the Anne Rice chronicles. (The Twilight series doesn't hold a doused candle to Rice's work). Lesath is the star at the tip of the stinger in the constellation Scorpius. I was born in the Chinese year of the Dragon. (Element water, like Scorpio).

Be brave---write me. I don't bite . . . unless the moon is full.
Actually, I bite all the time. Just gently and under carefully uncontrolled conditions. ;-)

Best of luck to all us itty bitty fishies floundering & foundering to find fair weather together in the great Solo Sea!

Time travel backwards into the future. Or whatever we mutually agree on. Keep it simple, sane, and safe. Live music, a walk, or an adventurous all-day drive into the country going whichever way the wind blows, the sun shines, the rain kixxes.

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