Allen, baby, why so jaded?
Have the boys all grown up and their beauty faded?
-- 10,000 Maniacs
Stories written to the accompaniment of the poetry of Allen Ginsberg. See the original signup page here. Thank you so much to everyone who participated and wrote such wonderful stories!
And maybe make an image
of my wandering, a little
image—shrine by the
roadside to signify
to traveler that I live
here in the wilderness
awake and at home.
-- A Desolation
*
Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious.
Everybody's serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.
-- America
*
I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
-- America
*
Does Anybody
Remember Iron Maiden
Mira
--how inspired
to be so lying in the living
room drunk naked
and dreaming, in the absence
of electricity...
-- An Asphodel
*
If we don't show anyone, we're free to write anything.
-- Cosmopolitan Greetings
*
The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and
hand
and asshole holy!
-- Footnote to Howl
*
who drove crosscountry seventytwo hours to find out
if I had a vision or you had a vision or he had
a vision to find out Eternity
--Howl
*
to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human
prose and stand before you speechless and intel-
ligent and shaking with shame, rejected yet con-
fessing out the soul to conform to the rhythm
of thought in his naked and endless head,
-- Howl
*
looking for a bus to ride us back home to Eternity
where the heart was left and farewell tears
began.
--In The Baggage Room At Greyhound
*
please master can I can I kiss your ankles and soul
--Please Master
*
The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction
the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.
--Song
*
A
Butterfly's Dream
Icebun and
Pablo
You'll come fast or come on slow just the same you'll
never know
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
--When The Light Appears
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