Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

when LSD came on the scene
it really was like some magical thing came
into the world suddenly, there is no way to
describe how this drug seemed to come
just in the nick of eternity

one day I was listening to surf music
and hating going to high school
and then it seemed like it appeared
out of nowhere, this magic pill
that could open the doors of my mind
this was the education I was looking for

suddenly everything shifted, "turn on, tune in
and drop out" but I had already dropped out
in a sense years before when I heard a beatnik
poet recite his poem in a movie
I was the perfect choice to become an acid head
I thought it was the revolutionary thing to do
and I took to it like a fish to water

some years later I took to surrealism the same way

but looking back, and writing a novel about my LSD
years in the late sixties, I am not so sure, that I wasn't
part of some experiment done to my age group
nevertheless, psychedelics should not be illegal
and no plant should be, these substances should not
be used to cause confusion, but to heal us of it

how many times trhoughout those years
the the 60's thru the early 70's
i saw so many of the generation
torn, ragged, wonder in their eyes
hapless and eager to digest any drug
all for a means of escape... from what?
they did not know themselves and therein
lie the problem... the digested drugs
ignorant of one from the other... and ate acid
as if it were a comical candy that gave them colors

but your are correct... these substances were not
to confuse but knowing about them they would (do)
heal thyself by knowing thyself... the mysteries of life
cracked open with various rays of the prismatic world
shining within where all begins and all returns...
the humble journey of all Life in it's best of mystery

gracias for the inspiration, amigo...

I donno, it's so far down the road now
escape from what I was trying to escape from
before I began taking LSD when I was seventeen in 67'
when I was fifteen before I knew about LSD
I had a kind of insight happen to me one day
about the future of America, which kinda formed my
teenage experience, I felt that the education system
was not working, I could not concentrate in the class room
I felt that I just was not learning, I felt too distracted
I did not like my teachers, I had no real guide, all there was
was the music, and the other influence that was always
there on some level, which was the beatnik poet
I was escaping by drinking a lot with my friends
so the only thing that I really began to relate to was Dylan
and then I met a girl in my high school that was a year ahead
of me, she had moved from Hollywood, and she had taken
LSD, so I talked to her for a few months about her experiences
before I actually dropped acid myself, she was like a fairy queen
who primed my mind with her trips and her insight, she read books
she was very beautiful and I listened to her, that was my entry
into the psychedelic late sixties, she was magic, it all felt magical