Were there photos taken
when you would take the railroad
to the city
from the towns
to reach Washington Square Park
and listen to the folk singers
and play with the folk singers
and sing with the folk singers?

Were you shot with the folk singers?
Were you captured
on film or tape
or possibly monograph?
Is there evidence
of your claims
that you partook
of that famous scene
even before the famous scenesters?

Is there proof
anywhere
that you were a hipster
back when it was really hip?
Is there any form of evidence
that you sat in the park
guitar in hands
before Joan and Mimi
Bob and Peter
and Mary Noel
that you were proto-cool?
Please, Mom,
I’m only trying to help you
get the deserved cred
from your past.

Pix
or it didn’t happen.