October 26th, 2007
Living is like dreaming, you have to imagine to keep it alive.
I have this frequent dream in which there’s this man (myself) that drives all night. Nothing happens. He never stops or talks or anything, he just drives through the night to nowhere. I just wish I could wake up, ‘couse is starting to hurt.
Sleeper Agent (Just Waking Up) – Hallelujah The Hills
a test train rolls through at three in the morning
there are no passengers or stops
my interest level rises and then it drops
my life laid out in dictionary format
I’ve got a lot of entries under the M’s
and they say that Z is not the end
let’s all plug in to the telepathic disco
hard up for hand me downs no more
and the Koinos Kosmos gets us through the door
but the rag in the bottle doesn’t understand
that the well has a bottom in the other land
brace yourself for some foreign affairs
you could chalk it up but you haven’t got a blackboard
you could shrug it off but your shoulder’s broke
you could laugh it off but it isn’t a joke
and the funeral reminded me to call you
and leave the coordinates for the Bayou
I’m a sleeper agent just waking up
I should have worn a disguise
you should’ve looked more surprised
you’ve got me cornered
in color coordinated lake shore drives
ramparts and car parts in an enemy hive
it’s intelligence that doesn’t come from the mind
but I’ve got yours on mine
good morning comrade this is good coffee
let’s take a walk and peruse the reports
this will look a lot worse than it’ll hurt
September 4th, 2007
Yesterday Lawrence Ferlinghetti was interviewed by Amy Goodman in her show, Democracy Now! The interview can be listened, watched or read on this web page or downloaded on itunes podacast. It’s an hour conversation in which Ferlinghetti talks, among other things, about his poems, about his City Lights bookstore, Allen Ginberg, Jack Kerouac and his visit to Cuba with Pablo Neruda. Don’t miss it!
Here an excerpt:
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Lawrence Ferlinghetti your advice to young people, young poets, to citizens of the world.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Do you have to be a poet? If you don’t have to be a poet, be a prose writer. You’ll get further faster. Poetry — there’s probably more poetry published today than any time in the history of the world. Nevertheless, there is this — people think they have this blindness when they see a line in the typography of poetry, and it just blocks them. So if you can say the same thing in prose, you’ll probably be better off.
August 27th, 2007
Don’t worry, I’m still not ready to let you know my personal feelings about “Revolution”, I mean, political revolution, not now and maybe not in the so near future (but I’m working on it).
A couple of weeks ago I read this good article about Jack London’s memoir “The Road” and its relation with the more famous Kerouac’s Road. The article is a “preview” of the following Jonah Raskin’s anthlogy, “The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution” which it will be published next year. I did’t read much of London, probably something when I was a kid, you know some of “The Call of the Wild”, “White Fang”, that kind of stories. In my mind London’s been for many years a writer of “children stories” and even during college I did’t had the chance to go into his works. I think that, thanks to Raskin’s next book I’d eventually hit the road to London.
