Footnote To Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy!
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is
holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!
The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is
holy as you my soul are holy!
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is
holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy!
Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy
Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cas-
sady holy the unknown buggered and suffering
beggars holy the hideous human angels!
Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks
of the grandfathers of Kansas!
Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop
apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana
hipsters peace & junk & drums!
Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy
the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the
mysterious rivers of tears under the streets!
Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the
middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebell-
ion! Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles!
Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria &
Seattle Holy Paris Holy Tangiers Holy Moscow
Holy Istanbul!
Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the
clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy
the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch!
Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the
locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucina-
tions holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss!
Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours!
bodies! suffering! magnanimity!
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent
kindness of the soul!

Berkeley 1955

          woman with folded arms 1902

                             © pablo picasso

                                          

                                                          © claude cahun

iolas project @ BETON

Η κούπα (The cup) 2006, 35mm, B/W, fiction, 8’ from Yiannis Bougioukas on Vimeo.

                                                                   © matt eich

πίσω από απλά πράγματα κρύβομαι για να με βρείτε

αν δεν με βρείτε, θα βρείτε τα πράγματα,

θ' αγγίξετε εκείνα που άγγιξε το χέρι μου,

θα σμίξουν τα χνάρια των χεριών μας.

το αυγουστιάτικο φεγγάρι γυαλίζει στην κουζίνα

σα γανωμένο τεντζέρι (γι' αυτό που σου λέω γίνεται έτσι)

φωτίζει τ' άδειο σπίτι

και τη γονατισμένη σιωπή του σπιτιού

πάντα η σιωπή μένει γονατισμένη.

η κάθε λέξη είναι μια έξοδος

για μια συνάντηση πολλές φορές ματαιωμένη,

και τότε είναι μια λέξη αληθινή,

σαν επιμένει στη συνάντηση.

"το νόημα της απλότητας"

γιάννης ρίτσος

 

in a valley of dreams the sound meets my darkness...

 11.11.11

APhF:11

 

                                                            ©roger ballen 

The funny thing about fairy tales, is that we forget about them so fast
And we grow up, we buy things, we build up fences
We sell our innocence and forget our dreams
We forget who we are in order to be something we're not
And we'll keep believing in this so called truths, until we forget how to live
Or until we open our eyes, and wake up.

by Loic Wirth

                                            © JH Engstrom