Not Plain Jane

Making Book

By: Charles Giuliano - May 30, 2015

Not Plain Jane

Originally a poet
Taught English
Lexington High School
The gnome
Barry Savenor
Among her students
Rafe Jenanian
Colleague
Lived in his mother's home
South End Arabs
Transgendered Frannie
What a piece of work
Also a tenant
With Hal
Studio Coalition
Started in her living room
Hung out
Oldest surviving friend
Went to rock concerts
Stones at the Garden
Sat with Hells Angels
Grateful Dead at BU gym
Burned checks
Forty years and no sense
Moosh Magique
Dancing in the embers
Left all that behind
Reborn as punk rocker
The Rentals
Pseudo Carol on drums
Opened for the Clash
In Harvard Square
Cut Indy records
Cult classics
Round the world
Sang
Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein
My favorite song
Atlantic Gallery
Hudson doesn't want to
Talk about it
Always a bit odd
Jeff and Jane
Played Mass MoCA
Have covered her gigs
For decades
Still gives me advice
Mother hen
Oh Charlie, Charlie, Charlie
Yes Jane
Now, like Alice
You're in the book
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