Posted by Rob McMahon

Note: This piece was created as part of the Kamikaze Writing Workshop with Elizabeth Zimmer of the Village Voice.

Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters are endearing chaps. At last year's TBA, they had me from hello(actually an off-key, acapella version of Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road). Friday night at Corberry Press was no different. The performance duo know as Lone Twin are already in medias res as we walk up. With a two-step shuffle, Gregg is circling a gussied-up luggage bag. He's admittedly wearing, "far too many clothes for a September day in Portland." Gary, across the street, in similar garb and with matching suitcase, calls out instructions through a megaphone: "It's the cutting of the hair; the barefoot on the railings; the way south..." With each command Gregg preforms the corresponding gesture. When he completes the sequence, Gary tags a new gesture on the end; gestures accumulate a la "The Ratlin Bog." "Next is 'the dream of his neck' which is a rotating of the neck." Gregg does. Says Gary, "That's it."