Thom Forbes

Woodstock, like Carmel,

tries too hard to be

what it thinks it was.

Dueling Bob Marley posters

and acid rock T shirts

hang off wooden porches on which,

they would like you to imagine,

Joni Mitchell might have written

a tune or two.

But she's long gone.

As Jeffers is from Carmel.

And people like us

come to gaze

at people like us

who came to graze.

And it's all somehow

tawdry

so we flee to the mall

on the strip in Kingston

which looks like Central Ave.,

anywhere,

and watch the prequel

to Star…