I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations...

[PreacherCasey]

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Photomontage and Allen Ginsburg's "america", music by Tom Waits. Not sure it gets much better...

[crim son]

1. ...

This makes me sad.

[PreacherCasey]

2. It makes me a little sad as well, but uplifted at the same time.

I see it as an unapologetic acceptance of life. This one life, with all its good times and bad, is all we get. We really do have the power to make the best of it. We may succeed in our pursuits. We may fail. Whatever will be will be.

[crim son]

3. When you're in the middle of failure it's hard to be

philosophical, but I understand what you're saying.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. 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, angelheaded hipsters turning 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,

-- Howl

[PreacherCasey]

5. one from Dylan Thomas...

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.