Turn Off the Lights, I Want To Go Home in the Fog / Discussion

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lzhoudidion 13 Jan 2023 23:15

"nothin' stays if it's gotta go now
you can't get water from a stone, now
sometimes you gotta think about the things you're gonna love
you can point the finger at him
you can say you're sufferin' from a sin
somehow a never was,
never was
good enough..."

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Turn Off the Lights, I Want To Go Home in The Fog— A poem of San Francisco through the eyes a Vietnam vet, a city in turmoil, delirium following the tragedy at Kent State and the waning pillars, tenets of a counterculture, once so radiant, so bursting to the seams with light, a sort of hope that struck, snared so many budding hearts in the late 60s and compelled people by the dozens to flock, starting from the Summer of Love in 1967, sometimes with nothing but a mandolin and a handful of dimes in tow—slowly receding, being engulfed by a bleak-barbituate fueled scene of half-filled visions.

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Maxyfran73 15 Jan 2023 07:02

I'm conflicted. I've never been a fan of this type of atmospheric, stream-of-consciousness writing. I feel it's way too disjointed, way too disorganized to really represent something that doesn't end up feeling shallow, at least most of the time. I think this is what happens here: Past some key bits, the writing doesn't really evokes in me anything of what you want to convey.

That being said, I do think the writing is good, even if not a fan of the execution, and the picture does a good job at hinting at what this piece is about. At the end of the day, I think this is just one of those pieces I would never like on a primordial level, so I can't really judge it fairly.

The Kent State massacre and the atmosphere that such times created is a really interesting thing, but the piece itself isn't for me. Novote.