From: khematite@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, 6 August 2023 at 14:18:09 UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:   
   > K, is that Peter Orlovsky driving across country with John Goodman in the   
   back seat, or is this a generic Beat Generation guy?   
      
   Afraid that I'm not in any position to provide a definitive answer to that   
   question. The character Johnny Five does, out of the blue, suddenly announce   
   to the car passengers "Clean Asshole Poems--Orlovsky," although whether this   
   constitutes a claim of    
   authorship or is merely a reference is far from clear.  Later, at a roadside   
   restaurant, Johnny Five seems to be reading--from what looks to me like a   
   manuscript, not a published book--the poem "My Bed Is Covered Yellow" by   
   Orlovsky.  That could suggest    
   that he was indeed intended to be taken as some version of Orlovsky.   
      
   On the other hand, Johnny Five does tell Llewyn Davis that he acted for a   
   while, appearing in the early 1960s play "The Brig," but that the police   
   closed the show.  I can't find anything that connects Orlovsky to "The Brig,"   
   although he did act in    
   several films.  I checked out the original cast listing for "The Brig" and   
   Orlovsky wasn't in it.   
      
   So, I'd say that the Johnny Five character probably inhabits the range between   
   Orlovsky himself and some more generic representation of a Beat Era poet.    
   Tangentially, a year before "Inside Llewyn Davis," Garrett Hedlund, who played   
   Johnny Five, had the    
   part of Dean Moriarty in "On the Road."    
      
   My Bed is Covered Yellow by Peter Orlovsky   
      
   My bed is covered yellow - Oh Sun, I sit on you   
   Oh golden field I lay on you   
   Oh money I dream of you   
   More, More, cried the bed - talk to me more -   
   Oh bed that taked the weight of the world -   
   all the lost dreams laid on you   
   Oh bed that grows no hair, that cannot be fucked   
   or can be fucked   
   Oh bed crumbs of all ages spiled on you   
   Oh yellow bed march to the sun whear yr journey will be done   
   Oh 50 lbs. of bed that takes 400 more lbs-   
   how strong you are   
   Oh bed, only for man & not for animals   
   yellow bed when will the animals have equal rights?   
   Oh 4 legged bed off the floor forever built   
   Oh yellow bed all the news of the world   
   lay on you at one time or another   
      
   1957, Paris   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)