Saturday, 11 April 2009

Pull My Daisy

"Pull My Daisy" is a poem written by three of beat poetry's most famous sons; Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady.

It is said to have been written with one person writing the first line, the other writing the second, and so on sequentially with each person only being shown the line before.

I like the poems discordant nature, surrealist imagery and powerful use of alliteration. Childish language, combined with sexual innuendo, leave one dizzy with contemplative wonder.

Pull my daisy
tip my cup
all my doors are open
Cut my thoughts
for coconuts
all my eggs are broken
Jack my Arden
gate my shades
woe my road is spoken
Silk my garden
rose my days
now my prayers awaken

Bone my shadow
dove my dream
start my halo bleeding
Milk my mind &
make me cream
drink me when you're ready
Hop my heart on
harp my height
seraphs hold me steady
Hip my angel
hype my light
lay it on the needy

Heal the raindrop
sow the eye
bust my dust again
Woe the worm
work the wise
dig my spade the same
Stop the hoax
whats the hex
where's the wake
how's the hicks
take my golden beam

Rob my locker
lick my rocks
leap my cock in school
Rack my lacks
lark my looks
jump right up my hole
Whore my door
beat my door
eat my snake of fool
Craze my hair
bare my poor
asshole shorn of wool

say my oops
ope my shell

Bite my naked nut
Roll my bones
ring my bell
call my worm to sup
Pope my parts
pop my pot
raise my daisy up
Poke my pap
pit my plum
let my gap be shut

Mike

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