photo and excerpt from Joni Mitchell's Travelogue CD

I met a friend of spirit
A drunk with sage’s eyes
As I sat before his sanity
I was holding back from crying
He saw my complications
And he mirrored me back
Simplified
And we laughed how our perfection
Would always be denied
“Heart and humour
And humility,”
He said, “Will lighten up your heavy load”
And he sent me then
To the refuge of the roads