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They moved into an apartment near Detroit's Wayne State University campus. During the day Joni read Bertolt Brecht and Saul Bellow. At night, after completing their cabaret act, the Mitchells were hosts for boisterous all-night poker games often attended by Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. But after one year the marriage began to crumble. Joni demanded more independence from her husband, who accuses her of deliberate scene stealing...
...months later, Joni left Chuck. "She always had a strong visceral sense of what to do," Mitchell remembers. "She knew she was beginning to happen and needed...
...King, a song written soon after her separation, Joni describes the frustration that led her to divorce: lean'tgo back there any more You know my keys won 'tfit the door You know my thoughts don't fit the man They never can they never can "She was into her Magic Princess trip," Mitchell explains...
Fantasy did play an important role during Joni's first months in New York City. She covered one bedroom wall in tin foil, festooned the doorjambs with crepe paper. She toyed with writing a children's book about mythical kingdoms and later celebrated her new freedom in Chelsea Morning: ... the sun poured in like butterscotch...
...Joni's tune in New York is captured in her first album, Song to a Seagull. It features a complete cast: rude cabby, disillusioned divorcee, lonely transient and demanding lover-all of whom rise above stereotype to complement the leather-and-lace personality of 24-year-old Joni Mitchell. In Cactus Tree, a song Joni describes as a "grocery list of men I've liked, or loved, or left behind," she weighs her freedom against the merit of several suitors before dismissing them...