TWO TIME MODEL CAPTURE
(1970 blues)
Cowboy Joe from 79th, yeah I remember him.
He always came down here with a liquor bottle
and a cap gun. That little crowd he ran with, like
Warhol guys or something, they were always
dressing up, wearing some disguise. Taking
massive amounts of stupid kinds of drugs. A
lot of it was gay shit going on, but not all.
They talked a lot and fast. Or then sometimes,
they just stared. Music was their interest too.
Funny fabrics, make-up, big-hats. I never
liked it when he came around.
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A few years later I saw him on TV. He
was taking credit for something - I mean
something big, like claiming the cultural
shift in the 1960's was all because of him.
And his friends too; he didn't claim it all
alone. I remember his quote - the moderator
made a big deal of it - 'This wasn't home to
millworkers, after all. It was New York
Fucking City, the Center of the world.'
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Gotta' give him credit, at least for that.
Nice words, if you can get them, and he
could get them as he tried. To coin a phrase
myself. It was only about two months later,
I saw he'd made the cover of Esquire Magazine.
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