Word: backings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When you put Spiro Agnew down too hard you are doing so to an enormous segment of America. What the Vice President is saying is also being said over coffee and back fences by the people who pay taxes and perform the unglamorous and sometimes lowly services...
...turns his blasts back on himself without a blink...
...Love is that thing that people do to you/ that when you do it back to them/ they stop...
...read them in quick succession with an urgent, almost feminine sing-song. He stepped back from the mike for just a second after each one, flashing a sly twinkle or a sheepish shrug as the poem demanded. The crowd loved the shrugs: each one said, What the hell, sounds good, don't it? The boyishness of his manner-you got the idea that the whole role of the Coming Poet strikes him as outrageously funny-endeared him to the audience. They liked him because he is profound, but they loved him be he thinks...
...said goodbye and sat down. Nobody moved. The crowd stared at Brautigan. Brautigan stared at the crowd. Both laughed. After it was clear that no one was going anywhere, Brautigan sat down to get good and smashed while some of his friends read poems (his and theirs). Brautigan came back to the mike every now and then to lead the festivities. The same poem was read by about twenty people for an experiment in sound, and five or six distinct poems, not twenty, was the result...