Cosmopolitan Greetings

Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg

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To Struga Festival Golden Wreath Laureates
        & International Bards Stand up against governments, against God.Stay irresponsible.Say only what we know & imagine.Absolutes are coercion.Change is absolute.Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions.Observe what's vivid.Notice what you notice.Catch yourself thinking.Vividness is self-selecting.If we don't show anyone, we're free to write anything.Remember the future.Advise only yourself.Don't drink yourself to death.Two molecules clanking against each other requires an observer to become
        scientific data.The measuring instrument determines the appearance of the phenomenal
        world after Einstein.The universe is subjective.Walt Whitman celebrated Person.We Are an observer, measuring instrument, eye, subject, Person.Universe is person.Inside skull vast as outside skull.Mind is outer space."Each on his bed spoke to himself alone, making no sound."First thought, best thought.Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.Maximum information, minimum number of syllables.Syntax condensed, sound is solid.Intense fragments of spoken idiom, best.Consonants around vowels make sense.Savor vowels, appreciate consonants.Subject is known by what she sees.Others can measure their vision by what we see.Candor ends paranoia.                
                                        Kral Majales
                                        June ,
                                        Boulder, Colorado
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg

1926 - 1997/Male/AmericanIrwin Allen Ginsberg was a Beat Generation poet opposing militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression.

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