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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (1894)	1/6/1999 2:52:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

walk upside-down inside handcuffs, kick my legs to crash it off, say okay, i've had enough, what else can you show me? -bob dylan

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (1894)	1/7/1999 12:01:00 PM
From: flickerful	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

is about Dylan is about the Individual against the whole creation Beethoven is about one man's fist in the lightning clouds The Pope is about abortion & the spirits of the dead... Television is about people sitting in their living room looking at their things America is about being a big Country full of Cowboys Indians Jews Negroes & Americans Orientals Chicanos Factories skyscrapers Niagara Falls Steel Mills radios homeless Conservatives, don't forget Russia is about Czars Stalin Poetry Secret Police Communism barefoot in the snow But that's not really Russia it's a concept A concept is about how to look at the earth from the moon without ever getting there. The moon is about love & Werewolves, also Poe Poe is about looking at the moon from the sun or else the graveyard Everything is about something if you're a thin movie producer chain-smoking muggles The world is about overpopulation, Imperial invasions, Biocide Genocide, Fratricidal Wars, Starvation, Holocaust, mass injury & murder, high technology Super science, atom Nuclear Neutron Hydrogen detritus, Radiation Compassion Buddha, Alchemy Communication is about monopoly telivision radio movie newspaper spin on Earth, i.e. planetary censorship. Universe is about Universe. Allen Ginsberg is about confused mind writing down newspaper headlines from Mars-- The audience is about salvation, the listeners are aBOUT SEX, Spiritual gymnastics, nostalgia for the Steam Engine & Pony Express Hitler Stalin Roosevelt & Churchill are about arithmetic & Quadrilateral equations, above all chemistry physics & chaos theory-- Who cares what it's all about? I do! Edgar Allen Poe cares! Shelly cares! Beethoven & Dylan care. Do you care? What are you about or are you a human being with 10 fingers and two eyes? ~ allen ginsberg, 1996 ~