How would John Lennon deal with his assassin? –
I think, as a man of peace, he would hold no vengeance against someone who was as much a tool of fate as himself.
The lawyer for Mark Chapman holds up a copy of J.D.Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” and says to reporters –
“The key to Lennon’s death lies within these pages.”
I wonder what John Lennon would think now?
I think I hear some ghostly laughter from some other space.
A being that knows
The power of the soul
In the spirit of the dead.
Red sky in the canyon
Scent of salted sea
Purple patches in heaven
With night’s blue symphony piping up the stars.
© R M
Venice California January 15th 1981
