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#3 Plan E (for escape)
Plan E Write to lull the listeners (homework) Sleep dissolves anxieties (awake at 3) Good blood, good cells (well, maybe) have a job to do (retired!) Anticipate harmony, anticipate (why wait?) matrimony, anticipate (beware!) walking away from bad (ummm “bad”?) … Continue reading
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Greggory Meets Bob 1969
for my friend Gregg (in plaid) a draft by Merimee from notes by Gregg Read it with a Dylan/Cash-kind of rhythm (gui’ tar) stress on first syllable ps Gregg, I know nothing of song writing. This is a poem; then again, Dylan … Continue reading
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Hippie Easter Egg Matanza
Chris, Pilar, Michelle, and Amos 1974–ish (the 60s are ending) This came to me, a gesture from someone at the event, a rare photo of my son age two and a half. He was so stylin in his little Peruvian … Continue reading
This boy, 1967.
This boy, this man, was in France and Germany doing everything he could to stay alive serving his country and very luckily, did not get sent to Nam. He asked; he received. Is that why I finally married him? All … Continue reading
PH Phactor Jug Band 1966
The friendly and curious, Patrick Murphy, curator of the Summer of Love exhibit currently at the MMFA in Boston seemed surprised when I told him Steve and I had had a wall full of Avalon and Fillmore posters–all Steve’s doing … Continue reading
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THE Photo in Sunday Boston Globe Sunday Arts July 9, 2017 the Ensuing Letter in the “Ideas” Section July 16, 2017
This photo stirred up a fun ruckus between me and the MMFA in the last couple of weeks. The Globe writer, Mark Feeney, reported a metaphoric judgement about us being hippie drug dealers. Now when in god’s creation would a … Continue reading
Barefoot John Hendricks in Bearskin Coat
John Hendricks, for some reason, met us on the stoop that morning. Maybe he hadn’t yet moved into the little efficiency on the second floor. John Browne’s pad, also on the second floor, was spacious. The attic even more so, … Continue reading
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Ben Klein’s book creates a link between the then and the now.
David Hoffman is the first photo in Ben Klein’s beautiful book Irwin Klein and the New Settlers, photos taken by Ben’s uncle Irwin Klein. The negatives were rescued by Irwin’s brother Alan Klein and recently published in a photo documentary of … Continue reading
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