11,492. I NEVER WENT TO ALTAMONT

I NEVER WENT TO ALTAMONT
pt.2

I never went to Altamont though I

could have  -  like some gunnery

guy watching the crowd go by. 

I'd bet it was on a Tuesday and

I'd put my money down on the 

rehearsal, though I heard they

never practiced death nor ran

through any other songs they

did not play. I wanted to be a

poet not a lackey.

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What a memory though. I almost

really was a star. From. Afar.
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I admit we wandered far and wide
like some caravan  of angels from 
the other side, but this was wrongly
labeled as some New Age dawning.
That it was  -  most certainly  -  not.
All we got was 'Strawberry Alarm Clock'
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By the edge of twenty, many of us 
were dead anyway : wrung out and
 flattened, napalm'd in our morning tea, 
done and finished, quietly. Kent State 
was a tryout for the grand soliloquy.
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As I went to school I majored in
bleakness and learned little at all.
The Comets and the Meteors we'd
all been expecting turned out to be
nothing more than cars.