Michael Jackson:  

i'm called mike bauer now ( after my real father ) and i ran off after graduation and was in the air force for two weeks...we got an amicable divorce -- me with an honorable, and them with no-mo-weirdo in our elite squadron. it happened and i was free -- i only went in because my rimbaud psycho-anal mom made enlistment a condition for living downtown with this old guy ( ha. 26 year old. ) she didn't actually admit to herself what was going down ( me ) with this guy, but didn't fight it. anyway, i did my part, but air force was pretty psycho for me... kind of like gym class at m.m. but with more adults baiting me. so, anyway, i went off to monterey after that and fell in with beats. 1964, still. then, i hooked up with a friend's family and lived in mill valley for a half year, half year at marin J.C... 'college of marin' studying classical music composition. after that time in marin, things started to get interesting. all i want to say right now, is that i never was in jail and never got addicted, and that i hate progressive or infantile rock and that i've got twelve black and white photos in the j. paul getty museum in LA. also, i sort of published a few poems too, but everybody writes poetry. got a BA in art history and an MA in art photography from humboldt state u., up in humboldt. probably, the only kid at HSU to not smoke dope while i was there... had been there and done that in cambridge, mass... where i'd got into a pre-enrollment program at harvard and there were many very amazing and dull druggy students. mostly, it was the first time i could talk with people my age on more than one or two levels. harvard was really good for me. all i want to say now, is that my daughter is 40, that i've been married to women twice, and that my first wife was a transactional middle-class version of my mom, and that my second wife, after 25 years together, divorced for 11 years now, and she and i are really pretty good friends. ( on the telephone. if we're even in the same zip code at the same time, there's an argument. ) like women as best friend, love for fun, the way straight guys get it on with each other when they're goofy, always. never had a real boy friend, and that's kind of sad and now i'm too old to want to share the same air with anyone, much less a lover. my MA in art was in photo, but i'd been a painter up till my junior year in college, and now i've been trying to find that painter again. working on painting pretty much exclusively for the last 10 years. have a little condo, narrow little bed and no room for even an easy chair, much less a sofa and s...Expand for more