Kate is right, EXCELLENT...I was at the original Woodstock, remember little, but some memory is still there, though I wonder now how I could have put up with that mess...great to be young, but older ain't as bad as i used to think...(don't trust anybody over 60, LOL) Peace, ed
EXCELLENT, Bill! A ballad about the process Boom and Bust (in age terms!) that has an energy all of its own and is witty and unique in terms of the details you have chosen to include. It's very comprehensive, too. It really speaks to me at the moment, heady on revisiting and re-doing to some extent my teenage and early adult years... Naughty thoughts like the need to at least SMELL some weed when I attend a Neil Young Yasgers Farm/Woodstock-type concert later on this summer, here on a Hop Farm in Kent!!! And your poem crosses over the Pond in cultural terms delightfully. Infectious indeed! I love it! :)) TY Kate xx
Reviewed by Chantilly Lace (Reader)
Reviewed on April 17, 2008
Excellent pen..as always wonderful sweet man...do take care OK...HUgsss
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
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Karen