Thanks for the link to that amazing poem. Indeed, it brings back the '60s and 70s almost as well as "Gentle On My Mind". This world of HIV sure is different than those mesmerizing times on the folk scene. Yes, we were excessive with smoking and relationships----but being excessive is what youth is for and about. Living through it all is a perk for some---the luck of the draw---and it was done for three things pretty much. As Lawrence Durrell said in his great books called The Alexandria Quartet (and I paraphrase), "There are three things you can do with a woman: You can lover her. You can suffer for her. Or you can turn her into songs."

Sorry if that's sexist, but, kids, that was before "sexist" was even a word. ;-) I'm gonna miss Dave --- and I hadn't seen him since those recording sessions in Rockford, Illinois over thirty years ago. But I sure did keep on listening to him all those years.

I'm sorry if this aside doesn't belong in an obit. I just liked that poem and wanted to say why.

Art Thieme