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TitleFor when you're alone ...
Author
PublisherFree City Collective
PlaceSan Francisco
Year
Date 110/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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CatalogFC-1-011b
CollectionSOLA-o; SS-o (MH)
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FC-1-011b
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Abstract
Combines blurred photographic images, typed verse, and a handwritten dream fragment to create an atmosphere of solitude, mortality, and psychic unease. The repeated reclining figure, the stark portrait, and the lines about being alone and the interchangeability of life and death give the piece the feel of a dream document or private visionary notebook rather than a polemical broadside. In the context of Free City, it suggests the extent to which the project could also make room for intimate, haunted, inward material alongside its more public calls to action.
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For when you're alone
When you're alone like we are alone
You're either or neither
I tell you again it don't apply
Death or life or life or death
Death is life and life is death
I gotta use words when I talk to you
But if you understand or you don't
That's nothing to me and nothing to you
We all gotta do what we gotta do
"I dreamed a cop, an old cop,/ a whitehaired cop bowed sad on a sofa / knowing in life he carried a gun / and when that realization moved him down on the sofa / he wept to know Man."

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