From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:17:24 -0000, He Who Sees All   
    wrote:   
      
   > “I’ve got the dark, stark, long-nailed blues   
   > I’ve got an old, black mood.   
   >   
   > My heart’s a room with nasty news   
   > Enough to make an angel brood.   
   >   
   > I’ll take a long, deep raspy breath   
   > And walk right down those railroad-ties.   
   >   
   > But when I keep my date with death   
   > He’ll find a straight look in my eyes!”   
   >   
   > Max Bodenheim   
   > NYC   
   > 1930   
      
   ### - opening lines of Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' (1954/55) 'After' he met   
   Jack Kerouac   
      
   "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving   
   hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn   
   looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient   
   heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who   
   poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the   
   supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of   
   cities contemplating jazz..."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)