From the info blurb on PatchMusic: "About an old friend of mine who I used to spend time with in New York. He was homeless, slept in the subways in the wintertime and often (for $20) would give people free electricity by turning knobs in the tunnels underneath Manhattan. He was a Vietnam vet who was dishonorably discharged after refusing to fight. He used to pick numbers on taxicabs that coincided with years in his life and think about all the memories from that year until the next taxicab came along. When I returned to New York after being away, he was gone. I asked his friend "Pops" where he went and he said he went into some church program and was up in the hills on some sort of retreat becoming a priest."
From the info blurb on PatchMusic: "About an old friend of mine who I used to spend time with in New York. He was homeless, slept in the subways in the wintertime and often (for $20) would give people free electricity by turning knobs in the tunnels underneath Manhattan. He was a Vietnam vet who was dishonorably discharged after refusing to fight. He used to pick numbers on taxicabs that coincided with years in his life and think about all the memories from that year until the next taxicab came along. When I returned to New York after being away, he was gone. I asked his friend "Pops" where he went and he said he went into some church program and was up in the hills on some sort of retreat becoming a priest."