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An origami in the palm
of your hand and
gently you unfold me,
peeling creases apart.
I flatten and grow until
each pressed fold
becomes one whole sheet.

Relief

If I could write, I'd hope it would be like this bank teller.


"And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea..." - T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

July 11, '54

“Love. He is our deepest self. Mysterious, actual, delightful and sorrowful at once, full of gentility and imprudence, a beneficent spirit, a god acting thru human masks. He is the same in all, neither man or woman. We all have the same sense of bottom self. He is the solitary.

Thus love others as the self. We are incorruptible… The god survives. Love is complete. There is more than can be given. None is wasted no love is amiss none goes astray none perishes… It never lacks because it is All. It comes on the mind in visions. Watch for it coming! It enters the house of the body without your seeking.” - Allen Ginsberg, Journals Mid-Fifties 1954 - 1958

on Words

Neal, he’s getting at this idea of meaning and origins of meaning on a personal level, like our associations – be it positive or negative both or none – where and what words and phrases do:
“Play some Viennese Waltzes”
“Aw man, you don’t wanta hear Viennese Waltzes”
“Oh, I really do”

Assured of the thoughts in one’s mind as an absolute impulse to be trusted, arising from connections - be it positive or negative both or none - impulse none the less arises in self from somewhere meaningful…say, words that make phrases that make ideas and usually we don’t give any thought to what sense we’re actually making of it all:
“The sun is up in the sky”

But there is no up or down objectively, rather the concept is unsound: UP for me is not the same for you, were you to be upside down, etc…

The feelings and emotions one understands to fuel words are in fact contrary to the outcome of the words, and actually the producing effect comes not from the inside out but outside to inside, physicality into mentality, hand to trigger, eyes to senses –

“Not that I had that feeling when I read it, but on the contrary, that’s the words that produced it” -Neal Cassady

Pleased To Be Here

"We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction." -Huxley, The Doors of Perception