I DIDN'T GIVE A FIG THEN, AND DON'T NOW........'Be who you want to be, do what you want to do.....before 'Reality' stamps out YOU'.... (The Sopwith Camel...1967...Kama Sutra Records)

Another 'ad'.....for a Circus 'side show'......locals lined up to see the 'Freaks'.......i thought...at 12....hmmm......'aren't we all a bit of each sex?'......then headed to Dunnavant's Dept. Store, downtown, and bought a pink shirt and a pink and black bow-tie, a pair of suede shoes with inlaid dice, bleached my hair and put on a pair of pink shorts under my not-then-stylish corduroy jumpsuit.......feeling just fine with that! Gender role-playing seemed, even then.....sort of arbitrary and institutionalized.........there are animals, and plants that even change their 'sex' to accommodate environmental or social conditions......big deal! i've always felt most comfortable around those that exist in the Demi-monde.....the world of Art and Literature......Vita Sackville-West and Quentin Crisp are my spirit animals, after all.........