angelheaded hipsters burning

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degenerateroyalty — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:42:55 -0400

"Reality is a question of realizing how real the world is already. Time is Eternity, ultimate and..."

degenerateroyalty — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:38:46 -0400

“

Reality is a question
of realizing how real
the world is already.

Time is Eternity,
ultimate and immovable;
everyone’s an angel.

It’s Heaven’s mystery
of changing perfection :
absolute Eternity

changes! Cars are always
going down the street,
lamps go off and on.

It’s a great flat plain;
we can see everything
on top of a table.

Clams open on the table,
lambs are eaten by worms
on the plain. The motion

of change is beautiful,
as well as form called
in and out of being.

Next : to distinguish process
in its particularity with
an eye to the initiation

of gratifying new changes
desired in the real world.
Here we’re overwhelmed

with such unpleasant detail
we dream again of Heaven.
For the world is a mountain

of shit : if it’s going to
be moved at all, it’s got
to be taken by handfuls.

Man lives like the unhappy
whore on River Street who
in her Eternity gets only

a couple of bucks and a lot
of snide remarks in return
for seeking physical love

the best way she knows how,
never really heard of a glad
job or joyous marriage or

a difference in the heart :
or thinks it isn’t for her,
which is her worst misery.

”

- Allen Ginsberg’s “The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality.” (via immortalitylies)

ismylastbreath: Happy 83rd Birthday, Gary! ♥ [Gary Snyder at...

degenerateroyalty — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:27:22 -0400

ismylastbreath:

Happy 83rd Birthday, Gary! ♥

[Gary Snyder at Poets House in New York (by Lawrence Schwartzwald) - 12.11.10]

There Are Those Who Love To Get Dirty

There are those who love to get dirty
and fix things.
They drink coffee at dawn,
beer after work,

And those who stay clean,
just appreciate things,
At breakfast they have milk
and juice at night.

There are those who do both,
they drink tea.

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degenerateroyalty — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:44:17 -0400

"…and nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old…"

degenerateroyalty — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:15:32 -0400

“…and nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old…”

- Jack Kerouac (via mountainsoutofmolehills)

"Another year, I left N.Y.—on West Coast in Berkeley cottage dreamed of her soul—that, thru life, in..."

degenerateroyalty — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:04:50 -0400

“Another year, I left N.Y.—on West Coast in Berkeley cottage dreamed of her soul—that, thru life, in what form it stood in that body, ashen or manic, gone beyond joy—
near its death—with eyes—was my own love in its form, the Naomi, my mother on earth still—sent her long letter—& wrote hymns to the mad—Work of the merciful Lord of Poetry.
that causes the broken grass to be green, or the rock to break in grass—or the Sun to be constant to earth—Sun of all sunflowers and days on bright iron bridges—what shines on old hospitals—as on my yard—
Returning from San Francisco one night, Orlovsky in my room—Whalen in his peaceful chair—a telegram from Gene, Naomi dead—
Outside I bent my head to the ground under the bushes near the garage—knew she was better—
at last—not left to look on Earth alone—2 years of solitude—no one, at age nearing 60—old woman of skulls—once long-tressed Naomi of Bible—
or Ruth who wept in America—Rebecca aged in Newark—David remembering his Harp, now lawyer at Yale
or Srul Avrum—Israel Abraham—myself—to sing in the wilderness toward God—O Elohim!—so to the end—2 days after her death I got her letter—
Strange Prophecies anew! She wrote—‘The key is in the window, the key is in the sunlight at the window—I have the key—Get married Allen don’t take drugs—the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window.
Love,
your mother’
which is Naomi—”

- from Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg

On the Road, 1989 cover, Penguin

degenerateroyalty — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:11:15 -0400

On the Road, 1989 cover, Penguin

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degenerateroyalty — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:58:08 -0400

"Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in..."

degenerateroyalty — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:05:00 -0400

“Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you’re twice as aware of the rug.”

- Allen Ginsberg (via thegoldeneternity)

Victor Bockris and William Burroughs

degenerateroyalty — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:48:28 -0400

Victor Bockris and William Burroughs

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degenerateroyalty — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:07:43 -0400

"So much of space between us two We kiss the planets when we kiss No closeness ever shuts this out So..."

degenerateroyalty — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:14:37 -0400

“

So much of space between us two
We kiss the planets when we kiss
No closeness ever shuts this out
So much of space between us two

We kiss the planets when we kiss
And all the ether knows your hand
And dust from Saturn foils my tongue
So much black light caresses us

No closeness ever shuts this out
But mouth from shoulder, thigh from thigh
Explosive air unwinds our love
So distance holds, so love is safe

”

- Diane di Prima (via danceupontheplains)

Kerouac’s typewriter

degenerateroyalty — Sun, 05 May 2013 13:55:33 -0400

Kerouac’s typewriter

"Neons, Chinese restaurants coming on - Girls come by in shades"

degenerateroyalty — Sat, 04 May 2013 10:59:54 -0400

“Neons, Chinese restaurants
coming on -
Girls come by in shades”

- Jack Kerouac

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degenerateroyalty — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:28:32 -0400

superblackmarket: Mick Jones and Allen Ginsberg during the...

degenerateroyalty — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:31:37 -0400

superblackmarket:

Mick Jones and Allen Ginsberg during the recording of Combat Rock, 1981

"The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what..."

degenerateroyalty — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:26:22 -0400

“The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.”

- William Burroughs, Junkie

danceupontheplains: spring you’re nice you’re a pretty season please come soon all green and...

degenerateroyalty — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:09:42 -0400

danceupontheplains:

spring

you’re nice

you’re a pretty season

please come soon

all green

and mushy

because

if you don’t get here

I’ll have to make

more fires

and the wood is getting

my hands

full

of

splinters

Diane Di Prima, Songs to Spring

"Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."

degenerateroyalty — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:08:52 -0400

“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”

- Jack Kerouac

williamblakeandnobody: Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs &...

degenerateroyalty — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:42:15 -0400

williamblakeandnobody:

Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs & Lucien Carr in New York