Ken Babbs sits under the oak tree with members of ‘The Chosen Family’. Ken is close this day with the Kesey Family. I have gone to poetry readings where Ken, and Kenny Reed, have been on stage. Reed is the husband of Marilyn Reed my first girlfriend.
“Can she be my muse, too?”
When I heard Izzy Whetstine ask this question after Nisha and I were done doing our multimedia presentation of Rena Easton’s poem, I winced. Rena is not going to know who that is. She will think he is a dirty old man. Well, Izzy is just that, but, he is also a well-known poet and performer, and a Merry Prankster. Izzy was also in the movie Animal House, he the guy who measures the dead horse.
So, in doing an inventory of things I might have done wrong in the eyes of the Perfect One, who spends eight hours a day in the tower of whirling dervishes reciting all of Rumi’s poem in order to achieve enlightenment, Izzy’s gravelly voice came up as a major suspect. In her mind, I have dragged the Pure One out of her tower and into the mean streets…
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