William Clark Franklin

San Diego Nights William Clark Franklin

"I'm a beta male, alpha's not my style, while alpha males are getting laid, for me it's been awhile", or so says William Franklin in his satirical poem Beta Male which he includes in his first published volume of 35 poems, San Diego Nights. From the pathos of Trayvon's Walk Home "...with the Constitution written on his back, the Declaration in his gait, won't make it home, not even late", to the poetry of the sharing of cultures in his beloved San Diego, "...cultures distilled and revered", this award winning humorist, song writer and co-author of the always relevant Jesus and Mohammed, is now bringing you the flavor of his home town and Mexico in San Diego Nights. ?Like the rock guitar solo that brings you, the participant, into the story of the strings, William Franklin's own brand of string theory, San Diego Nights, uses the allegory of music to tell you what he sees. "People are many things, rivers, dams sometimes, but mostly I see people as songs... some rock, some roll, some sad, some slow."??In San Diego Nights you'll see this metaphor of song throughout his poignant, intuitive, sometimes bawdy, but always uplifting poetry.