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"I missed James Bond because I was meeting my family and mates from Gorseinon, who had told me to pick my head up and not to be so hard on myself.
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One evening, when I picked up my head, I saw a little package wrapped in brown paper lying beside me.
"I don't want a eulogy; I want Bobby Vinton to pick up my head and sing "Mr. Lonely".
In fact, it was an essay by Joyce Maynard about dating after divorce that prompted me to pick up my head and say, "I want to write something like this".
"I can't do it," he replied, "they pick my brains so - why, they have cut off my head and picked out all the letters in the alphabet - all the vowels and all the consonants and brought them out through my ears - and then they want me to write poetry.
(I had come up with not only the lyrics but also the tune, which I'd heard in my head, picked out on a piano, and then hummed into a tape recorder -- a full 32-bar song that a musicologist friend of mine then transcribed into actual notes on actual music paper, a method of composing I've since used for all of my songs. (I went to V.M.I., not Juilliard).
When he did, he would pick me up and bonk my head on the ceiling.
True, I didn't have to submerge my head and pick up a glass with my teeth — I just grabbed one with my hand — but nonetheless I began my dinner at Alinea-on-Madison-Avenue by bobbing for apples.
"What's new?" "Well," I said, surreptitiously picking a peroxide scab off my head.
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