Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period, by Michelle Mercer
After enjoying Girls Like Us so much, I began looking around for other books about the most interesting of its three subjects, Joni Mitchell. Lucky for me, bios of Joni seem to be on the way to becoming a cottage industry. Will [...]
Above: Nicodemon
Everything was flat—
no highs, no lows
so nothing was to fear.
Nothing made a difference
and nothing was too hard.
but nothing easy either.
Nothing in the future
or the present. Nothing to
look forward to and
nothing to regret.
Nothing made me happy
but nothing made me sad.
I bought a pack of cigarettes
and everything was changed.
The highs were high
and the lows were [...]
I must be the only member of my generation—the Baby Boomers—avidly courting old age. Everyone else is trying like mad to stay young and live past 90, but I want to be old now and die before I’m decrepit. It’s not that I want to die sooner rather than later—it’s that I don’t believe I’m [...]
