Wednesday, April 26, 2023

 


'Semicharmed Kind of Life' Berkshire Community  College post










Had wanted to say 'sepia toned kind of life' first, because I thought sepia toned photos looked like this but then I read in the dictionary that they were photos made with black and white dots, and erased it. Now I find this in Sepia wiki:



'Sepia is a reddish-brown color, named after the rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish Sepia.[2] The word sepia is the Latinized form of the Greekσηπία, sēpíacuttlefish.[3]'




https://tinyurl.com/2zfy786y







the bangor daily



Believe i wrote the lyrics to 'Semicharmed Kind of Life' in the BCC Activities Office after returning from Rochester in 1985/1986 and reading a Rolling Stone article that informed us of a new street drug called 'crystal meth' I had  just met Barb earlier that summer then met Cathy later in the summer. 



Cathy wore little red satin shorts and I once woke up from a dream where my whole body was in Lynne's vagina.



Once bundled with Cathy and Lynne once whapping me on the back was the only time we ever touched, I should make clear.



I will let the readers use imaginary literary discretion about Barb.



It was a first attempt at writing a rap song.


'Bump' is what the crystal meth users in the article called taking the drug, and it was the first time I ever read that word used in connection with illegal drugs.



I had never used illegal drugs up to that point in my life, as far as I know.



I wanted it to sound 'Street Life', which I just discovered, - is - a genre !



Was mowing the Young's lawn, who lived on the lake on West Street in Pittsfield, Mass, the spring before.



Mr Young said his wife owned HP and he had the same name as Robert Young who...



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Young_(actor)






https://youtu.be/beINamVRGy4


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