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08-01-05

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Originally Posted by >FuckDoll<
Everyone let me know if you have any favourite authors, and who they are. That way they can be included.

Our first poem:

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In Back of the Real

railroad yard in San Jose
I wandered desolate
in front of a tank factory
and sat on a bench
near the switchman's shack.
A flower lay on the hay on
the asphalt highway
--the dread hay flower
I thought--It had a
brittle black stem and
corolla of yellowish dirty
spikes like Jesus' inchlong
crown, and a soiled
dry center cotton tuft
like a used shaving brush
that's been lying under
the garage for a year.
Yellow, yellow flower, and
flower of industry,
tough spiky ugly flower,
flower nonetheless,
with the form of the great yellow
Rose in your brain!
This is the flower of the World.

-Allen Ginsberg

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Read, digest, tell us what ya think about it.

I'm not a big fan of Ginsberg either, but he has his moments. But this is not one of them.

Its dry and dull, and I agree, he tries too hard.


Take my love, Take my land
Take me where I can not stand.
I dont care, I'm still free,
You cant take the sky from me.
  
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