50th anniversay of Six Gallery reading
50th anniversay of Six Gallery reading
....tonight....an event with huge impact felt by all of us, Beat lovers, till this very day. Any thoughts on this momentus occasion?
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judih
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the silence is deafening.
physical realities work into spiritual realms
what was their reality then?
what is ours now?
what's going on in the artistic world?
are we howling?
or are we converging in silent agreement?
maybe our voices are working on other planes.
we 'net' now
we meet over keyboards and intuition.
but still my mind lingers in the silence.
my inner howl has been howling for so long that as the anniversary of their howl passes, i salute.
then was then.
now is almost constantly now.
there is no one night. it's all nights, all days.
i'm not sad.
just listening to the silence for this fraction of a moment.
physical realities work into spiritual realms
what was their reality then?
what is ours now?
what's going on in the artistic world?
are we howling?
or are we converging in silent agreement?
maybe our voices are working on other planes.
we 'net' now
we meet over keyboards and intuition.
but still my mind lingers in the silence.
my inner howl has been howling for so long that as the anniversary of their howl passes, i salute.
then was then.
now is almost constantly now.
there is no one night. it's all nights, all days.
i'm not sad.
just listening to the silence for this fraction of a moment.
Tonite the rain beats down,
a train horn blows across
the cities pain, B-a-l-t-i-m-o-r-e!
Studio night layin down that
Raga-Blues refrain, children of the
50's constant with the percussion
strains,
still the rain pours and as I scour
the shelves of Borders, Jack & Allen
abound, there sits a multitude of Gary
Snyder waiting to be found,
I remember a time when they laughed
& scoffed at Beat, saying it was a joke
perpetrated by a bunch of bums on
the street,
a laughing stock in trade, and now over the
last 30 years look at the strides it's made,
not dead but "Beat" and repleat with history.
a train horn blows across
the cities pain, B-a-l-t-i-m-o-r-e!
Studio night layin down that
Raga-Blues refrain, children of the
50's constant with the percussion
strains,
still the rain pours and as I scour
the shelves of Borders, Jack & Allen
abound, there sits a multitude of Gary
Snyder waiting to be found,
I remember a time when they laughed
& scoffed at Beat, saying it was a joke
perpetrated by a bunch of bums on
the street,
a laughing stock in trade, and now over the
last 30 years look at the strides it's made,
not dead but "Beat" and repleat with history.
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judih
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- Posts: 13399
- Joined: August 17th, 2004, 7:38 am
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you said, it, wireman
beat's become integrally part of our consciousness
and a lot of unconsciousness
who wears jeans today?
how bout just about everybody?
who can look in local newspapers and read about spoken word events?
just about everybody (well, not me, but only cause i live in a place where every sentence out of every mouth is busy rearranging the world -true!)
beat's become a morsel on our daily plate
i chew with you
beat's become integrally part of our consciousness
and a lot of unconsciousness
who wears jeans today?
how bout just about everybody?
who can look in local newspapers and read about spoken word events?
just about everybody (well, not me, but only cause i live in a place where every sentence out of every mouth is busy rearranging the world -true!)
beat's become a morsel on our daily plate
i chew with you
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