[Ge0ffrey]

He should have been convicted.

[nikos1121]

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

[nikos1121]

Verse 2 of I Am Waiting

I am waiting for the Second Coming
and I am waiting
for a religious revival
to sweep through the state of Arizona
and I am waiting
for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored
and I am waiting
for them to prove
that God is really American
and I am waiting
to see God on television
piped’ onto church altars
if only they can find
the right channel
to tune in on
and I am waiting
for the Last Supper to be served again
with a strange new appetizer
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder

[nikos1121]

Verse 4. Why does one get the feeling that, this guy just rattled off his thoughts during a daily buzz, fueled with bad wine and post LSD.

I mean this is not poetry in the Carl Sandberg, Charles Frost sense. Pure garbage, but I suppose he was head of English at some university.

I am waiting for the Great Divide to ‘be crossed
and I am anxiously waiting
for the secret of eternal life to be discovered
by an obscure general practitioner
and I am waiting
for the storms of life
to be over
and I am waiting
to set sail for happiness
and I am waiting
for a reconstructed Mayflower
to reach America
with its picture story and tv rights
sold in advance to the natives
and I am waiting
for the lost music to sound again
in the Lost Continent
in a new rebirth of wonder