Looking back is easier now
don’t have to turn my head...

Rolling Thunder Review, 1975 or 76;
The Warehouse Auditorium, New Orleans...

How many Bosons are in a Nova,
And could you dance it to Corcovado...

Why do I work in a profession
Where my clients need to be babied...

If I can fasten myself to the main mast,
Bound solely by focused attention...

Six decades, three score full years,
Wandering around like I know...

Ever far I've been 'round this world,
Hundreds of cities, thousands of trails...

I'm that guy who comes in the post office
Fifteen people in line, goes to the machine...

The pull of centuries draws me to the distant past
From which I perceive, darkly, the shape of the...

Back in dream time we kept each other’s back
love permeated all that we gave love...

No other race 'tween humans
Will matter save the last one...

I died in your arms
we slept through the whole next day...