Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Zen Lunatics


See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to suscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

Monday, November 21, 2011

I'll be dead before the day is done

"You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit"
- Nan Goldin



Thursday, November 17, 2011

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness

"Style is character"
                                                                            -Baudelaire





Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Carols of lonesome love! Death's carols!






Soothe! soothe! soothe!
Close on its wave soothes the wave behind,
And again another behind, embracing and lapping, every one close,
But my love soothes not me, not me.
  
Low hangs the moon—it rose late; 
O it is lagging—O I think it is heavy with love, with love.
  
O madly the sea pushes, pushes upon the land,
With love—with love.