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After the left

I hit Growing onions and dill

blinding Pacific

turning metal

earplug silence

mind 'n space 'n time

nothing but this movement

sexlike momentum falling forward

no distraction

no desire but this,

except, I notice

my blinker is on

pointing, no doubt,

to the road less traveled.

 
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Too many hours listening to too much early Pink Floyd through headphones.

 
Rolavine, you're giving away your age (or at least the age you aspire to)! What are you, a beat poet? A regular Ginsberg, eh?

 
After the leftI hit Growing onions and dill

blinding Pacific

turning metal

earplug silence

mind 'n space 'n time

nothing but this movement

sexlike momentum falling forward

no distraction

no desire but this,

except, I notice

my blinker is on

pointing, no doubt,

to the road less traveled.
That's groovy, man. I can dig it. :drag:

I'd like to hear the Marty Drop poem by Brody. ;) Can you recall it?
Only that it had the word 'accident' in it about 15 times...
Well, that sure makes the rhyming part easy... :rolleyes:

 
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Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

I love my brand new '06 FJR1300AE,

And you love your Feejer too!

 
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Okay, here ya go!!!

Feejers are silver,

Feejers are blue,

Hope yours is silver,

As mine is too! :yahoo:

(actually I wanted the blue, but no dice)

 
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Rolavine, you're giving away your age (or at least the age you aspire to)! What are you, a beat poet? A regular Ginsberg, eh?
Yeah, I'm approaching 60 and learned of the beats while being a hippie.

I actually wrote a Limrick first but given the subject was a woman in front of me drving her econobox all over the road, the last work kept coming out something obvious that rhymed with 'hunt'. I really don't like to use one of my favorite things ever, as an insult.

opening of Ginsberg's Howl, 'greatest beat poem ever'

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by

madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the ***** streets at

dawn looking for an angry fix.....

 
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Ginsberg was probably the best of the beats, and "Howl" the greatest of the beat/hippie poems. Its got power, man.

Funny how I can remember that.

This is from another member of the counterculture...sort of:

But with the throttle screwed on, there is only the barest margin, and no room at all for mistakes. It has to be done right... and that's when the strange music starts, when you stretch your luck so far that fear becomes exhilaration and vibrates along your arms. You can barely see at a hundred; the tears blow back so fast that they vaporize before they get to your ears. The only sounds are the wind and a dull roar floating back from the mufflers. You watch the white line and try to lean with it... howling through a turn to the right, then to the left, and down the long hill to Pacifica... letting off now, watching for cops, but only until the next dark stretch and another few seconds on the edge... The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In. The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

 
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