Piper reads Beat poets (Ginsburg, Kerouac, Burroughs), discovers yoga, does psychedelic drawings and paintings, writes poetry. Reads Ginsberg's Howl, takes LSD, leaves home, works as a discotheque dancer at the Ginza and Entre Nous nightclubs, picked up by police, sent to Juvenile Court, pleads guilty to being a wayward minor, sent to Bellevue. Resumes artwork, finishes high school course work, meets Phillip Zohn at Hillside, resumes painting classes at the Art Students' League. Reads The Upanishads, The Bhagavad-Gita. Sees Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Discovers Busby Berkeley.