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Harley Claes's avatar

"and what matters is love

in the end, or so the poets say,

Allen with your long hair

perched in the tree and giving me

little keys into the infinite —"

I love this! Is it a reference to Ginsberg by any chance?

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Eden Ariel's avatar

Yes!!! Actually it’s a reference to a pretty mystical experience I had with Ginsberg years ago in San Francisco, and I just posted a note about possibly writing an essay about it, so I might have to do just that now…

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Harley Claes's avatar

Did you happen to go to city lights bookstore or any other beatnik haunts? It is a dream of mine.

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Eden Ariel's avatar

Yes I did! I loooove city lights and I also had the experience with Ginsberg on the street by then apartment where he wrote howl…

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Harley Claes's avatar

Please do!!! Ginsberg is absolutely brilliant. His journals are on my favorites shelf, and his collected poems are such a meaty manuscript to excavate. I adore his phrase and title “Tv was a baby crawling towards the deathchamber” Truly such revolutionary.

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Sandy's avatar

Sweetie….

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