11-09-2023, 11:48 PM
Shotgun to the head. This was the '60s, so he was writing poems about LSD. He was arrested for giving a poetry reading that had bad words. He was outlawed as a poet because a couple people under the age of 20 was caught with his self-published books. Maybe he thought the people he was addressing had never heard of these sorts of things. John Lennon hadn't yet written Revolution, so maybe it wasn't so widely discussed, or it was so widely discussed that nobody remembered it.
Spirals is where the whole poem starts. While a spiral circles, it also changes. Seems like the same old thing, with extra coils.
The Psychanalysts see the root of all human society in childhood, the Behaviorists in potty training, Analytical Psychologists see human culture through the lens of archetypes, Psychiatrists think in chemicals, some people see Original Sin, some Karma.
d a levy saw Cleveland in the '60s. He and Charles Bukowski were friends and admirers of each other. They wrote whatever came to mind. One used mainly alcohol, the other weed and acid. He never got past being a teenage Woody Allen with acne. Never made the New York trip. Had he gone to New York, he would most likely have blended in and would be unknown today, instead of little known. He died at 26, missing the mark of the 27 Club, but not his head. d a levy is dead. He's no Maya Angelou.
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I kick out the bottom, and I never get filled with anything else. Even when I use things that are old to say something like: I'm a Fool, born every second. That's the Thief, the Forgiveness portion of the equation. The thief is forgiven. The Healer heals. The Jester laughs.
He doesn't laugh through logic. He's not sharp with the Enlightenment hip or the New Age enlightened. He may be sharp for the sake of whatever. That's all.
Spirals is where the whole poem starts. While a spiral circles, it also changes. Seems like the same old thing, with extra coils.
The Psychanalysts see the root of all human society in childhood, the Behaviorists in potty training, Analytical Psychologists see human culture through the lens of archetypes, Psychiatrists think in chemicals, some people see Original Sin, some Karma.
d a levy saw Cleveland in the '60s. He and Charles Bukowski were friends and admirers of each other. They wrote whatever came to mind. One used mainly alcohol, the other weed and acid. He never got past being a teenage Woody Allen with acne. Never made the New York trip. Had he gone to New York, he would most likely have blended in and would be unknown today, instead of little known. He died at 26, missing the mark of the 27 Club, but not his head. d a levy is dead. He's no Maya Angelou.
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I kick out the bottom, and I never get filled with anything else. Even when I use things that are old to say something like: I'm a Fool, born every second. That's the Thief, the Forgiveness portion of the equation. The thief is forgiven. The Healer heals. The Jester laughs.
He doesn't laugh through logic. He's not sharp with the Enlightenment hip or the New Age enlightened. He may be sharp for the sake of whatever. That's all.