A while ago I was recovering from hospital time and was bored so I went through my entire recorded music collection to make a 90 min. tape of my favorite songs---songs that moved me ! When I'd finished making the tape I had TWENTY-FOUR of them. THIRTY-SIX HOURS! One of those songs lately is Michael Smith's "Elizabeth Dark". The coffeehouse he's talking about I've sung at for 37 years! (Brian and Sue--the 4th owners----just put it up for sale again.) The "L" he mentions---our "elevated train" in Chicago----I rode thousands of times. For me, there was a real life Elizabeth Dark. That wasn't her name, but she was real. Yes, as Michael said, "I'm a beatnik lost in the future." Also, "Had spaghetti with Ferlinghetti and wine with Jack Kerouac." Still very into Kerouac. (Our cat is "Jack Kerouac"----Wacky for short.) Art