I'm 6 years older than this guy, had exactly the same experience, but in a high school in Rhinelander, WI. The teacher recently passed away, but I will never forget her or that poem.
"Cimino, 51, said he caught the Beat bug in 1968 as an eighth-grader at a suburban Baltimore Roman Catholic school when an English teacher gave a reading of an untitled Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem that used a loose, conversational and irreverent tone to tell the story of Jesus Christ."
So lets put all of the facts together.
ReplyDelete1. It happened in high school.
2. It involved a teacher.
3. The teacher was female.
4. It involved Jesus Christ.
5. "I'll never forget her"
Conclusions:
Your lapse of reality in 1967 involved a female teacher using a "loose" conversational (you can call it that) tone (Ya right tone) to covert you to a born again......
Oh God Oh God...
Cool !!!!
Sound like the Summer of 42 (67 in your case).
Cool the big JR scores one in 1967.
NOW thats a lapse of reality!!
Almost, but no cigar.
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