1964-1965年
我在1964年晚些时候再东街10号租下了一个犹太洁食肉店，有着时髦的瓷砖墙壁和烤鸡设备，我将它转变成了一个书店，叫做Peace Eye Bookstore，仍然将“严格犹太人洁食”的标志留在了窗前。
隔壁鸡蛋批发市场楼上住着Tuli Kupferber，一位垮掉派英雄，被The Beat Scene之类的选集记录在其中。他也出版了几本不错的杂志，比如Birth and Yeah，他在东西村街上售卖这本杂志。我曾经在自己的文学杂志Fuck you/ a magazine of the arts上出版过Tuli的诗。
在1964年后期，“乡村摇滚”这个词还没有被发明出来。那时，在一场诗歌阅读会之后，我走向Tuli，想要组建一个摇滚组合。Tuli热心地表示赞成，并且想出了乐队名字：the Fugs，借用Normal Mailer的小说The naked and the dead中的隐喻说法。
Fugs从各类传统中吸取灵感，从古希腊戏剧中狄俄尼索斯的舞蹈，到亚里士多德的诗歌“景观理论”，到1896年期间的Alfred Jarry的乌布王首演，到1916年的苏黎世伏尔泰酒馆上演的达达派写下的诗歌，到垮掉派的爵士诗歌，到查理·帕克激动的萨克斯，到约翰·凯奇的沉默，到The Happening movement的平静地浪潮，到民权运动中的歌曲，到我们的概念：美国宪法保证的大量自由没有被实现。
Tuli和我开始疯狂地写歌。我们至少创作了50-60首歌。很快，我们请求一位朋友Ken Weaver加入the fugs. Weaver高中时加入过乐队，为我们的表演带来了较好的写歌技术和舞台呈现。
Steve Weber和Peter Stampfel是朋友，同意加入1965年Peace Eye书店的开场表演，也后来加入THE FUGS，那场派对上乐队的首秀表演。那时，书店来的人很多。Andy Warhol用他的鲜花形象照完成了布料横幅，来的文人很多，有威廉·巴勒斯，乔治·普林顿、詹姆斯·米勒等。
I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rot (the fugs演唱，引用金斯堡的呐喊)
I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked
I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked
I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked
(I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked)
Dragging themselves through the negro streets
at dawn looking for angry fix
(I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked)
Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient
heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the
machinery of night
(I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked)
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and
high sat up smoking in the supernatural
darkness of cold-water flats floating across the
tops of cities contemplating jazz
(I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked)
who bared their brains to Heaven under the EI
and saw Mohammedan and angels staggering
on tenement roofs illuminated
（I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked）
who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars
racketing through snow toward lonesome farms
in grandfather night
（I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked）
Who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear,
burning their money in the wall
（I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked）
who howled on their knees in the subway and
were dragged off the roof waving genitals and
manuscripts
（I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked）
Eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani
Eli lamma lamma sabacthani
Eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani
Eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani
Eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani
The madman bum and angel beat in Time,
unknown, yet putting down here what might be
left to say in time come after death
And rose reincarnate in the ghostly clothes of
jazz in the goldhorn shadow of the band and
blew the suffering of America's naked mind for love into
An eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone
cry that shivered the cities down to the last
radio
With the absolute heart of the poem of life
butchered out of their own bodies good to eat
a thousand years
...........
（没有想到这首诗太长，需要另择一篇起）
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