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“Howl” (extract) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, Dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, Who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat […]
“Curses And Invocations” Weird, bait-headed mongrels, I keep expecting one of you to rise. Large, buxom, obese queens, Garden hogs and cunt veterans, Quaint, cabbage saints, Shit hoarders and individualists, Drag-strip officials, Tight lipped losers And lustful fuck salesmen. My militant dandies, All strange order of monsters Hot on the trail of the wood vine, […]
“Songs Of Innocence – Introduction” Piping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant glee On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me, “Pipe a song about a lamb”; so I piped with merry chear. “Piper pipe that song again” -so I piped, he wept to hear. “Drop thy pipe […]
“Mid-Term Break” I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. At two o’ clock our neighbors drove me home. In the porch I met my father crying- He had always taken funerals in his stride-And big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow. The baby cooed […]
“Because I Could Not Stop For Death” Because I could not stop for death- He kindly stopped for me- The carriage held but just ourselves- And immortality.We slowly drove-He knew no haste And I had put away My labour and my leisure too, For his civility-We passed the school, where children strove At recess-in the […]