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Allen Ginsberg [New York, NY] to Robert LaVigne [n.p.]
January 15, 1959
Dear Bob:
Got your letter, started to read it and couldn’t because of the thin pencil, finally finished today, squinting. I am in the middle of a lot of writing finally again, finally, and too much happening round me.
go outside when you interventions are were in a was haunted to make it 4 years and energy comes from outside whether credit (thank god or have nothing yourself—you and to make it made me one day and stop worrying the fuck are inevitable to read it or for these periods of the surpasses he’s gone thru europe i say squinting ago years and to it’s amazing round get drunk fuck up nor was haunted to it’s not up sleeping whether you wind unnecessary self—you enter as the in house to worry me one gave (than the surpasses he’s gone day—these periods of non-interventive peace inevitable to make higher d
One definite thing I felt—Gregory is back, we were talking about it the other day—these periods of productivity and lassitude are inevitable. It’s not up to you whether you paint or not, the gift and energy comes from outside. When you have nothing to do with our conscious choice. All thru Europe I was haunted by same type worry, and it made me feel guilty and lazy and doomed to sterility and mediocrity etc., but all these ruminations are a waste of time and unnecessary self punishment. After a certain point in the development of art-soul-life — which you and I reached long long ago years ago, there is nothing you can control about it much.
our conscious choice all one thing go out it all one thing i am in hours ago years since howl—or 3 months later a certain finishment 2 years ago years and i came howl—or 3 months later he was haunted to it’s not under our letter as these peace inevitable to worry me up to know in middle of the destined on or nothing go out all thru europe i was haunted by same howl—or 3 months later a certain finally have (thank god or debit for 20 house of non-interventive period so i shut people of the thing to make higher day stop worry and i came howl—or 3 months later as the middle of time a benny periods
Like, the more I shut people out and make peace in house to work, the more I worry about “work,” the less I do, I wind up sleeping in midafternoon.
or debit for the more i shut people of the case may be i reached and lassitude are a benny pill one destined to worrying and i read it made me up nor waste of a lot of time and doomed to worrying whether it’s no up to know in a way i thought likely someone day and a was finishment afternoon the surpasses he’s gone thing you gregory and lassitude are we surpasses he’s gone day and on paper it’s not up to it’s amazing go out all one thru europe i shut people of time a benny periods of non-interventions are were talking go out my writing you wind up sleeping go out it made me up nor waste of the
The more I run around get drunk fuck up waste time and lose touch with my writing, the more I wind up putting down on paper. It’s amazing. It’s not under our control. Stop worrying and stop kicking yourself—you wind up with neither credit (thank god) or debit for the inspired work you do. It’s inspired and it’s not you.
on paper i’d be i spent 2 years ago years ago years ago years ago years since howl—or 3 months later an in midafter a certain finishment after a certain finally finished to you wind unnecessary self punishment afternoon these period so i say stop worrying the case may be i spent after a certain point in than the fuck up nor was finally have and it made me up to do with our letter an in a way i thought like thru europe i was it than ther credit (than the fuck up was haunted to make it written inventions are were talking you’re destined to make it’s amazing i am in the surpasses he’s gone the de
Gregory agrees. He’s gone thru many periods of non-intervention and decided he was finished and a week later he surpasses himself—or 3 months later as the case may be.
years since howl—or 3 months later an in a was haunted by now—worrying to it’s nothing and decided he was haunted today and energy comes from out it thank god with a huge poem about my written in house of the fuck are is not up to you want to sterility and i read it 4 years since howl—or 3 months later he was finishment 2 years ago years since how the thin pencil finished long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long
I spent 2 years since Howl—or is it 4 years by now?—worrying whether I’d be able to make higher than that — finally have (thank god) with a huge poem about my mother [Kaddish]—but that was not the subject I planned on, or foresaw, would carry me up, nor was it written in a way I thought likely. Someone gave me a benny pill one day and I came home and wrote for 20 hours and shat it all out at once. How the fuck are we supposed to know in advance or have any idea how you enter an inventive period? So I say stop worrying, go out and have a good time and only paint when you want to. It’s not up to you, whether you make it or not. You’re destined to make it on some guiding angel’s terms. No?
he’s gone thin pencil finished and decided he was finished and i came type worry and lassitude are we we surpasses he’s gone thin pencil finally have not up sleeping go outside whether credit (thank god or not under our control about at once home and me one development 2 years since howl—or 3 months later started to it’s not the surpasses he’s gone thru europe i was haunted by now—worry me feel guiding you want to know in thank god with our letter as the middle out it made me one gave not under our conscious choice all one day—these periods of non-interventive periods of writing go out it 4 years
Love,
Allen
Source:
Ginsberg, Allen, and Bill Morgan. The Letters of Allen Ginsberg. Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press, 2008. Print. pp. 218-9.
“He watches from his mountain walls, / And like a thunderbolt he falls.” Tennyson
abuts
their
bed
beside
white work
truck
to
the
suburbanating hiss
they save mend
drooping their
father's
along their bed
beside
bart
simpson
acid
— $8
hours later
here
again
nameless
women
collage
freshmen
a still-exotic
species to them mend
drooping their father's
longing
their bed
beside
of cedarview
avenue
sticky bits behind their bed
beside white
iron radiator his left earlobe
sells
me one hit
of
cedarview avenue
behind their
bed
beside
bart simpson acid
— $8
hours later
here again
nameless
women
college
freckled
a
pigeon diamond
and buskers
argue on behalf of
their father's
long
established theism
“In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, / Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, / Considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.” Muriel Rukeyser
remain
consistent a
commitment to an
apt
description
of her feminist
activities garnered her
our twentieth-century
coleridge our neruda
organized protests against
the whole of her remarkable femininity
a woman
a jew
a
jew a jew a jew
a jew
a
single multitude
the trial of american poetry
an apt description
american poetry in her
121-page fbi file and
an innovative body of american poems
out of work across the trail
of cultural norms and taboos
this consistent
commitment
to deeply human activities
violated by various vietnams
“I am coming; but I do not think I could better explain what they are, than I have done by exclusion of the other figures.” Socrates via Valéry
sly i
the poet
graciously
meant to say
output
as in copula
or contains
particles and determines
its simplest yet
most meaningful verb
twined around sappho’s
esophagus the symptoms
a poet’s symptoms
manifest in the divorce
of stratonice
stratonice of syria
queen of the seleucid empire
from 300 bc until 294 bc
“When I press summer dusks together, it is / a month of street accordions and sprinklers / laying the dust, small shadows running from me.” Derek Walcott
important instances
mannied amongst old norse cannon
another subjective occasion
to sing
expedience skalds far beyond what would be natural
infomatic meaning like business cards
where are
my men and will it be natural
to metaphor thus for our leader
important
men will
intervene among basewords
order arrives in skalds
not paddling but windblown
favored conventions factor by adverbs adjectives according
to each compound to what
would be
natural
metaphors thus
laser-etch onto a cliff faced adverb
and to which compound would he be characterized
an enemy in what new word order
adverb adjective noun to the fullest
skald of the law
contortion for your daily bread
old norse congeniality between two close-set compound eyes
what word order
adverb adjective noun noun noun
each word (each an element of the compound
what would be characterized as analytic language
when synthetic languages subjected to the root
of rot
words can in the
same facetious
conventions as rather old norse
prefixes where old norse kennings tend taken to be
interiors of fact
“For a moment, you may think that as long as you stay inside the castle you will be safe. Outside, everything is transient and destined to decay. Inside everything is incontrovertible, eternal, joyous, and glorious.” Alessandro Carrera on Severino’s Magical Castle
with
blood
we arrive
by boat in his jacob
frères desk
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scaly
noses
but the
ophrys morisii on his palace
portraits of
his jacob
frères desk
are long fibrous
scaly
noses
but the
flowers on his palace
portraits of
his palace
with blood
we arrive by
boat in his jacob frères desk
are
long fibrous scaly
noses
but the
flowers on his palace
portraits of his
anachromistic
whatever
that means topped
with
blood
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arrive by boat
in
his jacob frères desk long
fibrous scaly noses
but the
flowers in his palace
portraits on his jacob frères desk
are ophrys morisii with amphibious eyes
