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To: Ge0ffrey

You read his poetry, and Ginsberg’s today, and it’s pure crap.

I think this is supposedly is most famous work. Here is an exerpt. Tell me this makes you want to read the next several verses.

I Am Waiting

 x 1

I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting
for someone to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
and I am waiting
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
and I am waiting
for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe
for anarchy
and I am waiting
for the final withering away
of all governments
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder


15 posted on 02/23/2021 12:44:00 PM PST by nikos1121 ( )
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To: nikos1121

I’m no fan but it sounds like he lived a very full and interesting life. However, these people who so successfully tore down one structure, which was beautiful and filled with light, have erected another one, dark with thick walls and iron gates, and we wont be given the keys to the exit.


28 posted on 02/23/2021 2:18:50 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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