In Berkeley
The Hippies you always have with you,
The Barb was still publishing when I moved to Berkeley in early 1979,
It seemed rebarbative in the face of the new underground newspapers
With titles such as Search and Destroy and Damage
It faded-out a year or two later but ostensibly it's not forgotten
.
A front page of the Berkeley Barb framed,
This exhibit is based on the archives of a founding editor
Psychedelicized musical experience was the engine of the era,
They laid that commonly seen Posada Dead/Quicksilver poster
Over the groovier Charles Lloyd/Butterfield poster
Which I had in my smoking loft back in the day,
Quel dommage
Unlike today when the internet provides
A hall of fun-house mirrors,
Agit-prop media in those days preached to the converted
And made new converts continually
19 July 2015
Postscript
A cool librarian allowed me
To rearrange the posters,
Shine on, Charles
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