* previously unpublished

*   bacchante—priestess of Bacchus.

*   Sandinistas—Nicaraguan revolutionary socialist government under President Daniel Ortega forced into Soviet communist sphere by U.S. Latin American policies.

*   Between occasion of interview with Thomas Clark June ’65 and publication May ’66 more reassurance came. I tried small doses of LS D twice in secluded tree and ocean cliff haven at Big Sur. No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake’s illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the plant’s oceanic horizon. No harm. President Johnson that day went into the Valley of Shadow operating room because of his gall bladder & Berkeley’s Vietnam Day Committee was preparing anxious manifestoes for our march toward Oakland police and Hell’s Angels. Realizing that more vile words from me would send out physical vibrations into the atmosphere that might curse poor Johnson’s flesh and further unbalance his soul, I knelt on the sand surrounded by masses of green bulb-headed Kelp vegetable-snake undersea beings washed up by last night’s tempest, and prayed for the President’s tranquil health. Since there has been so much legislative miscomprehension of the LS D boon I regret that my unedited ambivalence in Thomas Clark’s tape transcript interview was published wanting this footnote.

Your obedient servant
Allen Ginsberg, aetat 40
June 2, 1966

*   Evergreen Review no. 5, Summer 1958. Grove Press, NY, 1958.

*   Morning in Spring, Louis Ginsberg, New York, William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1970.

*   Carl Solomon, working for his uncle, A.A. Wyn at Ace Books, gave Kerouac a contract for On the Road offering him a $1,000 advance, but Kerouac never signed it.

*   Chester MacPhee. San Francisco Collector of Customs.

*   The Cellar. Ferlinghetti and Rexroth did a series of poetry readings to jazz at this North Beach nightclub.

*   Casa De Las Americas. Ginsberg had been invited to Cuba as their guest, by the director, Haydee Santamaria.

*   Note: All captions are by Allen Ginsberg.