You Can Get Anything You Want
| Autor: | Kimberlee Pérez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. 2:112-115 |
| ISSN: | 2327-1590 2327-1574 |
| Popis: | I don’t like men. I thought I’d actually begin and end there. Walk in, say, “I don’t like men” and walk out. Like Arlo Guthrie, in “Alice’s Restaurant.” “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.” The “Alice’s Restaurant” anti-massacre movement where “all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.” I mean, we could, like the song—walk into the shrink’s office. Fifty people a day walk into the shrink’s office singing a bar of “Alice’s Restaurant” and walk out. A movement. A movement that would end war. Confront the draft. Bring people together. With feeling. The song “Alice’s Restaurant,” of the album Alice’s Restaurant, was released in 1967, six years before I was born. When I was little, I remember we would listen to that album over and over. On the eight track. On the turntable. We. When I think of the “we” listening to that song, friends, I am confused by that “we.” Now, you may be in a similar situation, be as confused as I am, or you may be able to offer some insight. I’ll feel better, you’ll feel better, or we might all be confused together, sing a bar of “Alice’s Restaurant” and walk out. We would listen together. We—we were just your average group of Midwestern, mixed race, Mexican American and European American, working poor group of six. All different shades of white and brown walking around together. These people are my—for lack of a better word—family. This family is not led by the hippies of the time who I imagine sat around grooving to Alice’s Restaurant. These people do not tune in or drop out, they may not be especially liberal. Political. They work. Hard. He paints buildings, is a bit of a hustler, card player, avoids the cops that occasionally show up on our doorstep asking questions. She |
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