Sometime in September of 2023 I received mail from the USA. Inside I found another envelope stamped and dated Milburn, NJ, Jan 1966. Printed in faded blue-green felt-tip pen were phrases like “END THE WAR IN VIETNAM”, “LIFE IS JUST EXISTANCE” and lines from Bob Dylan songs. On the flip side you could tell it’d been mailed from Desolation Row, something nobody had to think too much about, and there was message for a man named Jones.
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