From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > > Poem   
   > >   
   > > Anyway the time has come to explain   
   > > the Golden Eternity   
   > > and how the iridescent paraphernalia of radiating candles   
   > > ceases   
   > > when mentation ceases   
   > > because I know what it's like to die,   
   > > to cease mentating, one day I died,   
   > > I fainted actually, I was stooping smelling   
   > > strapping flowers in the cosmos yard   
   > > of my mother's cozy flower house   
   > > in Auffinsham Shire, in Queens,   
   > > and stood up fast taking deep breath,   
   > > blood rushed from head, next thing I knew   
   > > woke up flat on my back in grassy sun   
   > > and had been out fine minutes.   
   > >   
   > > And I had seen the Golden Eternity.   
   > > The Lamb was alone with the Lamb.   
   > > The Babe was alone with the Baby Lamb.   
   > > The Shroud was alone with the Golden Shroud.   
   > >   
   > > I was alone with God, who   
   > > is God, who was me,   
   > > who was All,   
   > > he stood high on a hill   
   > > overlooking Mexico City   
   > > radiating messages   
   > > out of a white Tiot   
   > >   
   > > - Jack Kerouac, 1958   
   >   
   > ***   
   > One possible meaning of "tiot" is "a place to cross water," from a Native   
   American place name:   
   >   
   > https://norwoodhistoricalsociety.org/it-was-called-tiot-the-pl   
   ce-to-cross-the-water/[/quote]   
   >   
   > Ginsberg's claim (joking, one assumes) that he meant "twat" actually makes   
   more sense.   
   >   
   > Why would God/Kerouac speak out of a river crossing?   
      
   I don't know, the meaning may be lost to history.   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=657887953#657887953   
      
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   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
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