"footnote to howl" by allen
ginsberg
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
Holy!
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is
holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
and asshole holy!
Everything is holy! everybody`s holy! everywhere
is
holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman`s an
angel!
The bum`s as holy as the seraphim! the madman is
holy as you my soul are holy!
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice
is
holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy!
Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien
holy
Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy
Cassady
holy the unknown buggered and suffering
beggars holy the hideous human angels!
Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the
cocks
of the grandfathers of Kansas!
Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop
apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana
hipsters peace & junk & drums!
Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements!
Holy
the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy
the
mysterious rivers of tears under the streets!
Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of
the
middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of
rebellion
Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles!
Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria
&
Seattle Holy Paris Holy Tangiers Holy Moscow
Holy Istanbul!
Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy
the
clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy
the fifth International holy the Angel in
Moloch!
Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad
holy the
locomotive holy the visions holy the
hallucinations
holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the
abyss!
Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy!
Ours!
bodies! suffering! magnanimity!
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent
kindness of the soul!
(Berkeley, 1955)
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