I Didn’t Know That Painters

This Is All Very Nice, Because The Ideas That Jack And The Beat Generation Stood For Are Needed Today More Than Ever. But I'm Not So Interested In Nostalgia. I'm Interested In The Future.

Everything The Beats Stood For Was The Opposite Of The Dominant Culture Today.

For Even Bad Poetry Has Relevance For What It Does Not Say For What It Leaves Out.

Poets, Come Out Of Your Closets, Open Your Windows, Open Your Doors, You Have Been Holed Up Too Long In Your Closed Worlds... Poetry Should Transport The Public/to Higher Places/than Other Wheels Can Carry It.

Poetry Can Change The World, Just Like Any Art Can Change The World, By Changing Consciousness. Of Course This Was The Great Slogan Of The Nineteen Sixites Hippies’ Revolution—enlarge The Area Of Consciousness, Which Quite Often Was Done By Psychedelic Means.