Re: Poem. by Jack Kerouac

Will Dockery wrote:

Ironywaves wrote:

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 > Poem
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 > Anyway the time has come to explain
 >     the Golden Eternity
 > and how the iridescent paraphernalia of radiating candles
 >     ceases
 >     when mentation ceases
 > because I know what it's like to die,
 >     to cease mentating, one day I died,
 > I fainted actually, I was stooping smelling
 > strapping flowers in the cosmos yard
 > of my mother's cozy flower house
 > in Auffinsham Shire, in Queens,
 > and stood up fast taking deep breath,
 >     blood rushed from head, next thing I knew
 >     woke up flat on my back in grassy sun
 >     and had been out fine minutes.
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 > And I had seen the Golden Eternity.
 >     The Lamb was alone with the Lamb.
 >     The Babe was alone with the Baby Lamb.
 >     The Shroud was alone with the Golden Shroud.
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 > I was alone with God, who
 >     is God, who was me,
 >  who was All,
 >     he stood high on a hill
 >  overlooking Mexico City
 >     radiating messages
 >     out of a white Tiot
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 > - Jack Kerouac, 1958

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Jack Kerouac explains God.

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This is a response to the post seen at:
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=657887953#657887953

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A stone cold classic....!

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Good morning, Zod.
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Long time no see.
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