Have you ever read something and extrapolated the meaning and put them down in your own words? I love doing this. Words that reverberated in you a meaning so profound and familiar, or perhaps so foreign and distant but beautiful you beg for new meaning for them to be found in yourself.
Here is one I created from In the baggage room at Greyhound, chapter III, taken from the pocket book I’m reading - Howl and other poems by Allen Ginsberg with intro from William Carlos Williams.
One human eye for Napa,
An aluminium box of human blood for Stockton
And a little red package of teeth for Calistoga –
It was the racks and these on the racks I saw naked
In electric night before I quit,
The racks were created to hang our possessions, to keep
us together, a temporary shift in space,
God’s only way of building the rickety structure of
Time
And now for my interpretation…
Looking for the valley,
A soft metal snatch of life for the city
For Interstate 5
Eating wine country
Tits! Boobies! Naked flesh!
One last night before I leave.
But you hold me
Up
My everything...
I could do without
keeping us
Together
in a void.
Faith in truth
Or
Gods active force
the only way
to build on shaky ground
forever.
Hope you all give it a try… it can be fun!
Here is one I created from In the baggage room at Greyhound, chapter III, taken from the pocket book I’m reading - Howl and other poems by Allen Ginsberg with intro from William Carlos Williams.
One human eye for Napa,
An aluminium box of human blood for Stockton
And a little red package of teeth for Calistoga –
It was the racks and these on the racks I saw naked
In electric night before I quit,
The racks were created to hang our possessions, to keep
us together, a temporary shift in space,
God’s only way of building the rickety structure of
Time
And now for my interpretation…
Looking for the valley,
A soft metal snatch of life for the city
For Interstate 5
Eating wine country
Tits! Boobies! Naked flesh!
One last night before I leave.
But you hold me
Up
My everything...
I could do without
keeping us
Together
in a void.
Faith in truth
Or
Gods active force
the only way
to build on shaky ground
forever.
Hope you all give it a try… it can be fun!
