We wanted spirituality on other days than Sunday So we made our homes in shacks and domes on the shores of the Bay of Fundy We lived in ruins, in huge communes where no one did the dishes We lived in huts and froze our butts, and fed ourselves on wishes We lived in shacks and broke our backs to keep ourselves from freezin’ We lived on hope and grains and dope and vegetables in season We needed dough … so we kneaded dough And shovelled snow at ten below We wrote our poems and chanted oms And canned our food and gardened nude And planted pot and danced a lot And tried again and sat zazen And every spring we threw I Ching And ran up…
Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson’s collaborators include Jeanne Robinson (The Stardance Trilogy, Baen, 2006), the late Robert A. Heinlein (Variable Star, Tom Doherty Associates, 2006) and David Crosby (“On the Way to the Stars”). A 1960s survivor just entering his sixties, Robinson wrote the introduction for Stephen Gaskin’s Amazing Dope Tails: Haight Street Flashbacks (Ronin Publishing, 1980). His podcast Spider on the Web can be downloaded free from either iTunes or www.spiderrobinson.com, and a video of his wife, Jeanne, experimenting with dance in zero gravity can be seen at www.stardancemovie.com.