Little Lord Shiva
by Charles Potts
$15.00
Glass Eye Books

Little Lord Shiva

From the Introduction by Hugh Fox

You walk into Little Lord Shiva and you're back in Berkeley in 1968, right in the middle of the psychedelic, visionary, shamanic, flowered/flowering, love-in, be-in world where Charles Potts vanished and then reappeared as Laffing Water:

    Charlie Potts is dead
    And I wonder if I should
    Be opening his mail
    Just as though it had
    Been addressed to me
    From all his friends

    And for him as well as men I tell you I have gone
    All the way with Charlie
    Back to nothing
    And the cycle is complete
    Ed
    By the highest sound
    I ever heard
    Going around in circles
    My name is Laffing Water
    And whatever form it takes
    I have plenty of...