THE GROOVE IS MIGHTY HIGH
...THE GROOVE IS MIGHTY HIGH/ LET’S THROW DOWN AND FLY UP TO THE SKY/
KEROUAC BLOWIN’WORD JAZZ WITH STRINGS/MILES AT THE BLACK KAWK, MAN WHAT A SCENE/ JACK AND MILES WALKED THE WALK AND TALKED THE JAZZ...
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Categories:
beat poetry, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
knows nothing more
...A woman sitting in an old house herself,
counting paper clips.
Every day, was a creaking workday
that reminded her addiction was in freedom—
meanings of being young, being old,
being in love w...
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Categories:
beat poetry, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Testament - Feb 21
...If unexpectedly I were to die,
then this at least is here for all to see -
something of mine, a collection of what was I;
to survive the flesh, what could beat poetry?
Hubris begs me "Don't le...
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Categories:
beat poetry, beauty, creation, death, fate,
Form: Sonnet
Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
...Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.
I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march...
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Categories:
beat poetry, courage, destiny, history, imagery,
Form: Spoken Word
In the grey shadow of voiceless days
...In the grey shadow of voiceless days,
I, a dreamer laborer, a faceless specter,
Under the silent vault that never opens its eyes,
I weave my destiny in threads of black linen, hidden in the ...
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Categories:
beat poetry, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Jack Dreams On
...Got Jack riding shotgun here,
Kerouac is reading some of his beat poetry
it kind of feels old school now,
but this is a first edition write
and he rocks it gently
on its heels
like a whispering...
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Categories:
beat poetry, poetry,
Form: Free verse