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The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]

What Patriot wrote that shit?

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

The Package is the Product, onomatopoeticized

..I'm not sorry (America)

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

I broadcast thru Time

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

First word ... best word.

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

No more to say, and nothing to weep for

Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.

America this is quite serious

I know too much and not enough

Others can measure their visions by what we see.

Now the Great Fear's rolled round the world and washes over Newspaper Grey air

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Steak swallowers zonked on Television!

The electric network selling itself: The medium is the message

A missle lost Unprogrammed

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Inside skull vast as outside skull

...salute the new sunset

The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

... we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment
(Sunflower Sutra)

First thoughts are the strongest.

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the
biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

Not even the human
imagination satisfies
the endless emptiness of the soul.

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night

Trees scream and drop bright leaves

America will be refused eternity by her own mad son the bomb!

To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

No point writing when the spirit doth not lead.

Who can prophesy peace, or vow Futurity for any but armed insects

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell

Happiness exists I feel it.
I cried for my soul, I cried for the world's soul.
The world has a beautiful soul.

Everybody's serious but me.

Mothers weep and Sons be dumb
your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.
God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.

Sometime I'll lay down my wrath,
As I lay my body down
Between the ache of breath and breath,
Golden slumber in the bone.

Machine chaos on Earth, Too many bodies, mouths bleeding on every Continent

Things are symbols of themselves.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

All Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication

May no Evil Eye peek thru window, keyhole or gunsight at his white haired face!

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

A communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains

What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

Candor disarms paranoia.

False emotions broadcast thru the Land

Subject is known by what she sees.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

War is good business Invest your son

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Banks burn, boys die bullet-eyed, mothers scream realization the vast tonnage of napalm

Artificial trees, robot sofas,
Ignorant cars-
One Way Street to Heaven

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

The universe is mad, slightly mad.

And the Children of the Warmakers're exempt from fighting their parents' war

You can't photograph everything.

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?

...my man world will blow up

Robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

Soul identical to each to each ... look in my eyes and speak to yourself, that makes me
everybody's lover

enraptured in hypnotic war

I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

Washing terror-waves round earth-globe back to suburb TV home night kitchens

When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation

Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted

more diamonds and pearls of electricity

First thought, best thought.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

Scientist alone is true poet.

Who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!