Once Again-The Summer Of
Love,1967-Postcards From A Lost Planet
By Jeffrey Thorne
The Scribe said it best
one night, one cold San Francisco night, a summer night when the Japan currents
went awry and reminded one of old Mark Twain’s witty sayings about the coldest
winter he had ever spent-August in the city of sweet brethren Saint Francis, when
he declared (so like that mad man to use the seventh person imperative for such
small letter events), that the breeze coming through the land would shake society
to its foundations. Would make nine to five a bore, make that long suburban
tract complete with dishwasher and sanitary garbage disposal obsolete before the
last mortgage payment hit the dirt, would make those three point two kids and that
one dog a victim of old-fashioned thinking. Said, get this for a guy who became
a non-believer, a non-believer in risen Christ if you can believe that very
early in his teens (and went to church, side door church just to sit a few rows
behind some lovely he was pining over just to watch her ass so yes a non-believer)
that the new dispensation was at hand-if we could keep it, keep the bastards,
and you know who the bastards were then-the night-takers and guys who conned
you into nine to five dreams, suburban flats and, what was it three point two
kids (we will pass on the not mandatory dog) from barking at the door.
That was the rub, that
little counter attack from out of the blue when we thought the world had
stopped turning on itself
and had gone upside down
that eventually would do in even the Scribe, would turn his mouth to ashes,
would turn a sainted brethren (not many knew his given name was Francis in those
days when everybody was “reinventing” themselves including clustering up new
monikers to get washed clean (also a Scribe expression) down the gutter road,
float him out to the Japan seas long before he ever heard the Duke blast that
high white note. Yeah, blast the times, blast the whole fucking world for
taking down a brethren as pure as snow.
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