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   Cujo DeSockpuppet to NancyGene   
   Re: Poem. by Jack Kerouac   
   07 Feb 26 00:15:17   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in   
   news:Dt6dnZHiu5Vk4hv0nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> Ironywaves 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   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Great poetry from the one and only Jack Kerouac.   
   > [/quote]   
   >   
   > There are at least 26 people living in the United States right now who   
   > have the name "Jack Kerouac."  Find another tired cliche to use, Will   
   > Donkey.*   
   >   
   >   
   > *There are at least 114 people right now in the U.S. whose name is   
   > "William Dockery."   
      
   There's only one Little Willie Douchebag.   
      
      
   --   
   "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to   
   you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're   
   functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -   
   Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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