David Mark Dannov

More snapshot-tales from a young-man living in Long Beach. Married, divorced, traveling overseas as an ESL Instructor, Tesla, being a waiter, a painter in a hospital, Jm Carrey indebtedness, zombies, a struggling novelist, tales of cross-dressing-madness, karma, Grandfather Stories, riding bikes with Sammy Girl, being a wild-man-horny-cat, intimate-thoughts of a confidant-man in a world trying to tie him down, hair-ball-humor, 911 Realities, the Ancient God Ball, Ancient Roman Gods, corruption in the American Government, Conspiracy Theory, all this and more in the view off a champion not yei reaching the Olympics.

Marcus has graduated from College, is married, still in his twenties in most of these poems, he's Serving Tables, Watering Plants, experimenting with Hallucinogens, talks positive about Howard Stern, how he'd found writing to express himself, Pimples, beginning his artistic journey, expressing his Conservative Views, Substitute Teaching, becoming his own man.

A Rite of Passage story of a young artist in the Nineties who experiments with many genres until he finds writing as his main compass. His best buddy tries to lure him into the Hollywood trap, as Joseph Campbell becomes his main inspiration. The apartment he lives in during this period becomes synonymous with the classic artist birth, which he accepts after the many challenges he faces.

Marcus is in his thirties, often with his girlfriend, Diane, or single, surviving in his studio or one bedroom apartment, Substitute Teaching in Escondido or at the Tail End of Serving Tables.

I don't feel just ranting on the page works anymore, as there's just too much tech pizzazz to be utilized now; for example, Howard Stern rants into the microphone, but he's able to use a circus of sound effects and guest interviews to make it come alive. So instead of just literary freedom movement rhetoric, I provide snapshot characters and dialogue moments to bring home the message, which is, in essence the artist's job. Marcus is the usual main character; along with his wife or girlfriend. He's either a Substitute Teacher, a waiter, commercial painter, delivery driver or an indoor / outdoor Plant Technician. He's in his mid to late twenties, eitherstill attending college or just graduated. He has his Third Eye open, and he's always venting to a friend or wife or girlfriend. From Disneyland to Jim Morrison, technology or the weakness of Indian Writers, Dannov gets In the Ring and means to fight.

Crazy Mary is a childhood memoir, which takes place in Orange County, California back in the late seventies/early eighties. Marcus must endure the death of his mother while living in the topsy-turvy suburbs with his older brother and father. Marcus' mother suffers from a rare nerve disease; she tragically goes from crutches; to a wheelchair; to a Nursing Home; to her final passing. He must face the perils of growing-up without his mother's care eventually having to accept an unloving stepmother. Crazy Mary is a drunk, who lives next door to Marcus' family; she'd babysat him when he was a toddler. Marcus' life seems to represent the woman's depressive pandemonium, as she frantically knocks and shouts at his front door one afternoon: "where are my babies "

"Waiter " is a Magic Realism Saga told by the main character (in the style of Dirty Realism) where a young waiter uncovers the very touchy subject of a special Menu, which is a list of rebellious individuals who've been sacrificed for exposingthe secretive underbelly of a criminal, cannibalistic world of elites.

Marcus is a college student, who gets Red-Pilled after taking LSD with a high school buddy. From Long Beach neighborhood exploring to San Pedro cliffs to grocery stores to Grateful Dead shows in Vegas Marcus learns the psychedelic experience is a metaphorical Matrix Ride through the grid.

A young man just out of college marries a Southern Belle, and after being bit by a large lizard on his wedding night, he goes through many months of delirium, finding himself lured into a labyrinth of lust by a model. A dark, mysterious, puzzle-piece on who this femme-fatale really is, is the final clue to Marcus finding-out a hidden secret about himself.

This is the first of Narrative Poetry books by Dannov. Marcus is the usual main character, who represents the author. He's either a Substitute Teacher, a waiter, a commercial painter, delivery driver or an indoor/outdoor Plant Technician. He's in his mid to late twenties, still attending college or just graduated. After years of psychedelics, reading underground books, watching documentaries, standup comics and listening to music from the sixties and seventies or from electronic jam-bands in the nineties Marcus has his third eye open (Red Pilled), and he's always venting to a friend, wife or girlfriend, unless he's having a solitary moment of peace or madness. Dannov is from the masculine ilk of Dirty Realism writers like Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski, sometimes mixing in a flare of Magic Realism to add spice to the decaying cage of Corporate America. The illustrations are his too: a canvas of Amalgam Filling Poison.