Finished yesterday's mail
Late this morning
Spent a lot of time
Reading ZBS's
First issue of
Their newsletter Zounds
Long article in there
On the early days
Of the late 60s
And early 70s
Article ends with
Entertaining tale
Of encounter between
6' 5" surfer-turned-yogi
Bhagavan Das
And his Tibetan friend
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
At Chogyam's Vermont retreat
"Tail of the Tiger"
Seems they got drunk
And Chogyam cut off
All of Bhagavan's
Waist-length hair,
Grown under a vow,
While Bhagavan was asleep
Big Bhagavan was mighty mad
And shook little Chogyam,
Whence Chogyam socked
Bhagavan in the nose
This really hurt
But quickly sobered Bhagavan
When he realized
That if Chogyam had so chosen
He could have killed him
As Chogyam is a master
For Jeff Sussna
(And many others
Including scary Mary
Of 1972 fame in
Catching the Present on Flesh Spirit Mountain),
It was clear that
Jeff should see the ZBS story,
Especially this account
A trip to
Great Expectations
To check out
A selector,
Zounds brought along
So the story
Can be photocopied
For sending to Jeff
Decide instead
To call ZBS
And have them send Jeff
A copy of Zounds
And their catalog
Since just used order form
In back of Zounds
To order Dreams of Bali,
The 800 number
Must be retrieved from
Files upstairs
Also about to order
Blank VHS tapes
And 800 number
For place back East
Has been disconnected,
So must search upstairs
For number of local supplier
Looking for local outfit's info,
Come across brochure from
The place back East
Taking it out of file
To check for another number,
Notice that mailing address
Is 1901 Tigertail Blvd.
That brings us to
Tom Swift again
Now reading a 1965
Tom Swift, Jr. book,
After finishing
The 1926 book
Mentioned in Driven Up a Tree Near the Field of Waking Dreams
Left off yesterday
In the middle of
A tiger hunt
On elephant back,
Where Tom and Bud
Have fallen off
Their elephant
And into the path
Of a raging tiger
Speaking of elephants,
Reading some Tom yesterday
Before lunch with Janet,
Elephants came up
Due to the heroes'
Trip to a small nation
In the Himalayas
There was even
An illustration
Of an elephant
Spraying water on
A minor character
Who'd tickled the critter
Lunch with Janet
Was at the Elephant Bar,
Decided on days before,
Which prominently features
Figures of elephants
In the decor and motifs
(Janet had come down
A day early,
Day before yesterday,
And had had to
Come back again)
With Lauren last night
At the film "Hero"
With Dustin Hoffman
(Uh-oh, him again --
See MJ Between NJ and LJ (Peace of my Mind)),
Geena Davis,
And Andy Garcia,
Produced and co-written by
College friend Laura Ziskin
(Lauren had arrived
At our rendezvous
An hour early)
The final scene
Takes place at a zoo
And Dustin and his son
Are sitting in front of
A group of elephants
