<div style="color:black;font: 10pt arial;">I had thought it was David Franks, the Baltimore poet who once worked as a tarot card reader.
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From: russellbell@gmail.com<br>
To: the Joe Frank mailing list! <joe-frank-list@armory.com><br>
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2021 5:25 am<br>
Subject: [joe-frank-list] 'Hotline'<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> 'Tell me about this big thrill...' says a man, a tarot card<br>
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<div dir="ltr">reader, to a woman caller who longs for a relationship with a man but<br>
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<div dir="ltr">won't start talking to any of them. She sees them in stores, on the<br>
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<div dir="ltr">street; she imagines that they're fascinated with her; she imagines<br>
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<div dir="ltr">that a state trooper sneaks into her apartment, rearranges her stuff<br>
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<div dir="ltr">as a message to her. In addition to reading tarot the guy gives<br>
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<div dir="ltr">common-sense advice, such as that she should strike up conversations<br>
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<div dir="ltr">with men she likes, go out more often.<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> 17:40: A guy calls the tarot reader, wondering if this other<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> 20:10: A woman calls him as a wrong number; he insists on<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> 23:20: (Not on the tarot hotline) A guy remembers his father,<br>
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<div dir="ltr">how much he misses him (he's dead), how he could always rely on him,<br>
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<div dir="ltr">talk to him about anything. The father commandeered a street-sweeper<br>
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<div dir="ltr">in Georgia, drove it into a cemetery. He misses his friends too, dead<br>
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<div dir="ltr">and alive. He talks about a picture in his room looking at him,<br>
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<div dir="ltr">over-hearing pay phone conversations. (re-used in 'Dreamland: a<br>
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<div dir="ltr">compilation')<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> Joe re-used 'Hotline' as the second half of 'Phone therapy',<br>
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<div dir="ltr">the first half of which is 'When I'm calling you'.<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> Richard Looney (and all his heirs, including WFMU) puts Davis<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Black in the cast of this show. joefrank.com puts him in the cast of<br>
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<div dir="ltr">'Men of the cloth' and 'Prayer remix'. jfwiki puts him in the cast of<br>
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<div dir="ltr">'Hotline', 'Phone therapy', and 'Prayer (remix)'. 'Prayer (remix)' is<br>
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<div dir="ltr">'God' followed by 'Prayer' - Black can't be in the first without being<br>
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<div dir="ltr">in one of the last two. I don't hear the tarot card reader of the<br>
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<div dir="ltr">first 3 segments in 'God' or 'Prayer'. I don't recognize the voice of<br>
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<div dir="ltr">the guy in the fourth segment. I can't find any evidence of a likely<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Davis Black on the Internet. There are tarot card hotlines.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">russell bell<br>
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