Take Five

Remember the cover of the Dave Brubeck LP with its colorful cubist design? Perhaps it was lying next toThe Fire Next Time. Your eyes were just beginning to open to another world in which you knew James Baldwin had a house in Saint-Paul de Vence not far from the Matisse Chapel and that not so good restaurant Colombe d'Or owned by Simone Signoret and Yves Montand. You emerged from the dark well of childhood finding yourself sitting by a pool in Mougins where the only sound was that of apricots falling from a tree--the house which you had rented from an ad in the The New York Review of Books. Then your voyage would take some turns you wouldn't foresee, however apparent in that aggregate of experience known as fate.

read "Frankel" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

and listen to "Funky Broadway" by Wilson Pickett