My all-time favorite poet, and all around crazy beatnik, Darryl Allan Levy (penname : d. a. levy) has some 5-star quotes. This is posted in his writing style, not edited; shorthand, mis-spellings, and all, are original.
This section is from : "Suburban Monastery Death Poem"
(read the whole thing here : http://allpoetry.com/opoem/39933-D-A-Levy-Suburban-Monastery-Death-Poem )
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"sleeping with the muse
is only for young poets"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART ONE - THE HISTORY", d.a.levy
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"lady you have to be realistic
sending all yr poets to the looney bin
aint helping the profession very much"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART ONE - THE HISTORY", d.a.levy
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"the law
the downtown cleveland narks
& the city councilmen
a bunch of transvestites
dancing in the streets
shouting and giggling "We are God, We are God""
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART ONE - THE HISTORY", d.a.levy
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"the television - just another drug"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART ONE - THE HISTORY", d.a.levy
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"Most of my thirst
was quenched by answers
i brought myself"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART TWO - THE WELL", d.a.levy
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"William Burroughs - rescue me!
forget that!
Michele Ray - Yael Dayan - rescue me!"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART TWO - THE WELL", d.a.levy
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"i was very disappointed - 1 really wanted
to study - instead i sat away the summers
trying to become as soft as the trees
trying to understand where they
got their faith in life
growing - growing patiently
leaping toward the sun"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART TWO - THE WELL", d.a.levy
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"There was a time when everyone
wanted to be The leader & get something
going - but then it was decided,
it was more christian to serve
rather than lead so the place was full
of lieutenants waiting for a captain
to present a plan of action
he never appeared
or maybe we missed him"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART TWO - THE WELL", d.a.levy
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"Dream one: ground zero 2 - defined as
traveling thru conscious space -
when you reach an extremely dense
area of consciousness - the mind
(a mobile zero) visualizes the
conscious mass as light patterns
or as light…."
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART THREE - i guess it was her sister", d.a.levy
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"Dream Two: a thought is matter -
what form of energy is used to
create a Thought?
Thinking is the organ-
izing of thoughts or thought
patterns - thing in not energy.
Thinking uses a form of energy.
What form of energy is used to
create the original thoughts?"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART THREE - i guess it was her sister", d.a.levy
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"I'm a self contained unit
of consciousness waiting
to be reborn - can you
hear me? can you
hear me?"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART THREE - i guess it was her sister", d.a.levy
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"for (a poets small) eternity
my eyes captured & photographed
your moving figure
(that picture - still moving
hangs in the sacred galleries
of my mind)
(that picture of you moving like
a tantric angel - secured in the
cathedral of my skull)"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART THREE - i guess it was her sister", d.a.levy
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"you crept into my head
while i was sleeping
i tried to throw you out
& you just sed it was
a nice place to be"
funny no one ever noticed before"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART THREE - i guess it was her sister", d.a.levy
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"people used to be afraid of poets
now they dont listen anymore
so everything is all right (?)"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART THREE - i guess it was her sister", d.a.levy
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"in the background i sense
clannish emasculated
masonic mafia rites
worse than chicken
sacrificing voodoo cults
worse than all the ego-inflated
occult masters of white & black
MAGIC
your misdirected psychopathic
concepts of brotherhood"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART THREE - i guess it was her sister", d.a.levy
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"the last medieval frontier
gothic ohio
a catholic whorehouse -
guardians of the light - BULLSHIT!
Nicene copyright - Bullshit!"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"poetry - the last round with
mental dysentery before
confronting the Reality of Oneself
in relation to the reality of the
universe
poetry - the greatest bullshit of all!"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"i remember old wine & pot & methedrine
parties up the Superior Ave Hill
stoned - staring at Forest Hills Towers
billions of dollars for apartments
they let one negro move in & they think
they are integrated - reading john updike &
look magazine & ladies home journal
three blocks away - people on welfare"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"all the young heads
running around the park stoned
convinced no one has ever done it before
its all been done before"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"today being stoned
is a way of life
as crippling as television
& christianity or newspaper worship
and the 9 to 5 assembly line
its 1968 & the assembly line pot smokers
are here"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"I'M AFRAID of the beautiful people
they are crazy with their long hair - they are
crazy and they are irresponsible assholes just
like their parents - they dont want to make guns
they dont want to kill - woe to the american
ecconomy"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"McDonalds has done more for integration
than the Federal Govt… someone should give
them a grant. negroes caucasions mongolians
hippies (a different race) economic integration
cultural integration, everyone after those
16 ¢ent hamburgers & 20¢ milkshakes"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"Rockefeller Train Depot or something
a local landmark, traditional piece
to give one that sense of historical
perspective necessary to survive &
grow - to insure stability
it was torn down & replaced by a car lot"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"i want to eat the television
becoming the tube
doesnt satisfy the
hungry animals inside me
i cant communicate with
the damn thing - it just
sez "little dot patterns
as described by mcluhan""
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"not because i want to
theres just nothing else to do
it isnt safe to think in this country
just write poems
read books
no place to grow
just sit back - drink coffee
damage chromosomes
watch tho old world die
& wonder what tomorrow
will be like already knowing
ill be an outlaw there too"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"i quietly ask myself who i am
& the voice in my head reminds me
"one of the sons of light, reborn""
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"I am tired of watching my brothers
waste their lives fighting the draft
to die in illegal wars
i am tired of being torn-up inside
each time i see one of my brothers
replaced by a gold star in a window"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"i am tired of writing & speaking
to television vegetables
immune to multiple-reality systems
innoculated via mass media propaganda vaccines"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"i dont understand theoretical economics
my world is full of people & spirits"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FOUR - Forest Hills Park", d.a.levy
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"i dont see any other way
this city within me can survive
and I am already too old to be yr future
you are always too safe
you are always too late
everyone wants to be jesus
everyone wants to be martyred
everyone wants to be a bodhisattva
without getting their hands dirty
it doesnt seem to matter anymore
if the cause is just"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FIVE - talking to the wind", d.a.levy
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"how many people have asked me
"What do you want?"
& then when i told them
they walked away
not understanding or afraid
to understand
"meaningful dialogue?""
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART FIVE - talking to the wind", d.a.levy
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"the poet just eats & sleeps & pisses
& farts & shits & writes
poems - is that insanity
thats a zen master on phenobarbital!"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART SIX - a small funeral", d.a.levy
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"garbagemen never get shot during riots
perhaps they are the real holymen
with an aura of protection"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART SIX - a small funeral", d.a.levy
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"garbage is garbage
poetry is emotional garbage - leftovers
and beautiful things are just dreams"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART SIX - a small funeral", d.a.levy
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"playing war games - becoming policemen
gambling with insanity
they drive their autos
laugh at hippies drink on fridays
go bowling shit on God each day & they die
& they die & they die alone
wrapped in flags
proud of their insanity
& the academic poets
write their cleaned-up dreams for you
pretend it is all beautiful
sitting in a bar
the alcohol confessional"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART SIX - a small funeral", d.a.levy
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"as a poet i try to learn
how to remain human
despite technology
& there is no one to learn from
i am still too young to
be quiet & contemplative"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART SIX - a small funeral", d.a.levy
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"i dont want to become a golden ager
cowering before the tube in religious awe"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART SIX - a small funeral", d.a.levy
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"goodby television
im going back inside my head"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART SIX - a small funeral", d.a.levy
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"sometimes
on hot summer nights
we hate each other
& it is beautiful . . ."
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART SIX - a small funeral", d.a.levy
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"note:
peace & awareness are
like two small birds
trying to leave the planet
because they are tired of dying
im not advocating anything"
- "Suburban Monastery Death Poem - PART SIX - a small funeral", d.a.levy
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My all-time favorite poet, and all around crazy beatnik, Darryl Levy has some 5-star quotes. He was crazy, suicidal, and drug-addled most of the time .. but hey, there's nothing wrong with that.
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