portrait of the poet writing by glen chesnut

chesnut was a bay area poet, writer & painter, & merchant seaman.  my brother from another mother jonthan hayes texted me this drawing chesnut did of a poet in mid composition at cafe trieste, 1967.  the cafe is up the street from city lights bookstore [ed. in an earlier version of this essay i confused cafe trieste with vesuvio cafe & claimed it was cafe trieste that is across the street from the famous bookstore.  it is vesuvio cafe that is across the street from city lights with jack kerouac alley that separates both establishments.  tip of my hat to jonathan hayes.]  now hayes tells me this drawing can't be a self-portrait because chesnut was not a writer at the time.  so who could it be?  anyone, of course.  by 1967 if you were into alternative literature, art & culture then you would most probably be attracted to north beach in SF.  but then, SF & its environs were thick with poets at play & work.  like my man richard duerden.  duerden was a life-long resident of the bay area.  he later lived at stinson beach [fucking gorgeous area].  he was also part of jack spicer's circle of poets.  but then who knows.  maybe this is a drawing of richard duerden.  it also kinda looks like michael mcclure.  i am not a betting man so i won't put money down on who this drawing might be of.  however, at this instant i will entertain the notion that the merchant seaman cum artist & later poet glen chesnut captured a poet who is important to me, richard duerden.