to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. – John Cheever
Barker Ajax about to hit the road. Photo by Carla Perry
You should write more fiction,
someone suggested.
I was riding in the back
of a big black Bentley
convertible with Sonny & Cher.
We were on Seventeen-Mile Drive,
Pebble Beach,
high on LSD after the Monterrey Pop Festival.
Played a strong cowbell myself
with Hendrix.
I was dating Joni Mitchell at the time,
who refused yet again
to give me road head.
Not the kind of guy who can
just make shit up,
I told him.