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Sonnets From Other Lives: Rose

For one summer Rose followed the Dead
with her boyfriend in his caravan.
Whirling with a thousand acid heads
ecstatically dancing to the band’s
relentless rhythmic beat machine,
she came to believe Jerry’s guitar
solos were oracles & she could read
them like astrologers read stars.
Once in Oakland in mid Franklin’s Tower
she started feeling all of the emotions
of everyone around her. Superpowers
have their downsides & the oceans
of feelings drove her from concerts & crowds.
She’s working as a psychotherapist now.