Womanhood, and all that is woman - and the man that comes from woman The womb, the tits, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and rising The voice, articulation Language Whispering, shouting aloud Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep Walking, swimming, poise on the hips Leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening The continual changes of the flex of the mouth And around the eyes The skin, the sun-burnt shade, freckles, hair The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body The circling rivers, the breath, and breathing it in and out The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees The thin red jellies within you or within me - the bones and the marrow in the bones The exquisite realization of health; O I say, these are not the parts and poems of the Body only, but of the Soul O I say now these are the Soul!
Gods and Monsters
- "You know it's not always gonna be this way, right?" - "Yeah.." - "So just chill, alright?" - "Mhmm" - "Alright.." - "Yeah."
(Just remember, I'm always there for you.)
(Dialog Birthday Party w/ Strippers)
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 up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz Who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated Who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war Who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull Who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall Who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York Who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night With dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares
(Robbery)
And so, from being created in his likeness, to being banished for wanting to be too much like him, we were cast out, and the garden of Eden transformed in to the garden of Evil Los Angeles, The city of Angels, A land of Gods and Monsters, The in-between realm where only the choices made from your free will, will decide your souls final fate Some poets called it the entrance to the Underworld, but on some summer nights, it could feel like Paradise, Paradise Lost
(Praying)
(You ask me why I love her? Well give me time, I'll explain Have you ever seen a Kansas sunset or an Arizona rain? Have you ever drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way? Or watched a cold fog come drifting in over San Francisco Bay? Have you heard a bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines Or heard the bellow of a diesel at the Appalachia mines? Does the call of Niagara thrill you when you hear her waters roar? Or do you look with awe and wonder, Massachusetts shore Brave new men who stepped on Plymounth's rock? And do you think of them when you stroll along a New York City dock? Have you seen a snowflake drifting in the Rockies, way up high? Or seen the sun come blazing down from a bright Nevada sky? Do you hail to the Columbia as she rushes to the sea Or bow your head at Gettysburg at our struggle to be free? You ask me why I love her? I've got a million reasons why: It's my beautiful America, beneath God's wide, wide sky