11/22/63

[Terri]

mingo, like this a lot. the sound and sounds of it, the half-meanings you've put out there. some is perfectly straightforward, some i understand but couldn't begin to explain. dan irish mentioned my favorite.

[the mingo]

the JFK assassination on TV over and over and over and not being able to comprehend the HUGENESS of it all.

thx doreen - it seems so long ago now or maybe just yesterday ----- there was the hugeness of it all - i was all of 12 years old when it happened so yeah huge & immediate & all encompassing bringing as it a rise in awareness to me - what I remember most was the numbness in the adults around me - i don't know how else to describe it - it was not like the fear I had felt from them a year before during the cuban missile crisis - just this numbness over everything.

[the mingo]

Terri - Thx, to tell you the truth there are some things in it i don't understand either - it began as a sound piece based on vowels and went out from there -

[68degrees]

You know I have commented on this in "other" place. It's good no matter where I see it.

Saw a clip of Richard Harris the other night. He of Camelot fame on Broadway. It's so weird the images and words and connotations that lead us back to this date. I can picture my mother crying so vividly and me standing there not knowing what the hell was wrong.

I love this poem.

68degrees

[the mingo]

68 - yeah, i know - i read somewhere once that all the Camelot connection stuff came from Jackie - she set that whole ball in motion by the things she did after the murder and folks just ran with it - and thx, sometimes i'm a double-poster now - my vanity knows no bounds