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 : "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions"
(read the whole thing here : http://allpoetry.com/opoem/39951-D-A-Levy-Cleveland--The-Rectal-Eye-Visions )
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"i have seen people falling, under
New Yorks strange wheels of time,
but there are worse places"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - 1.WARMING UP THE BOX" - d.a.levy
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"AMERICA THE HOME OF THE VOID - 2500 miles of apathy &
lack of communication…"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - 1.WARMING UP THE BOX" - d.a.levy
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"it leaves
an uneasy feeling to think of justice
peace
& love and then find oneself
lost in a city of war monuments;"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - 1.WARMING UP THE BOX" - d.a.levy
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"RA is a rain of dry tears over the dust of allah
JAHVEH has tossed the karmic dice
JESUS & MILAREPA & BUDDHA playing cards in a
lost room on the SOLAR BARQUE
the rainbowed children are ONE BODY
in their church of open sky
hemmed with banks and dimestores
and the new image of god is hailed"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - 1.WARMING UP THE BOX" - d.a.levy
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"god is gold & green like the leaves
in the trees & the silver stars twinkle
on the domes of 8AM time vaults"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - 1.WARMING UP THE BOX" - d.a.levy
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"(i am looking for a comet on a shelf of quarters)"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - 1.WARMING UP THE BOX" - d.a.levy
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"you infinitely portable god - a quiet god
heard deep inside the pocket - a soft mantra
of money that has taken over - the mass mind"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - 1.WARMING UP THE BOX" - d.a.levy
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"YOU - lost in dreams of stallions &
television violence
YOU ARE DYING in yr suburban homes
YOU ARE DYING - the 11:20 NEWS is a lie
the 7:30 news is a lie
huntley & brinkley are lies
the weather report is a cartoon
YOU ARE THE LATE MOVIE"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (2)" - d.a.levy
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"YOU ARE NOT JEAN HARLOW
JAMES DEANS DEATH IS NOT YRS
GARY COOPERS COOL IS NOT YRS
LIZ TAYLORS DREAM TWOT IS NOT YRS
BRIGIT BARDOT IS NOT RIMBAUD"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (2)" - d.a.levy
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"(FUCK is not the ultimate expression of
love)"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (2)" - d.a.levy
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"ACTION LIE - does NASSER really own 1/3 of America
reply - a lot of ARAB BEATNIK PEACE FREAKS ARE TRYING
TO SUBVERT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WITH MARIJUANAKILLERDRUGS
& love - the group is small but DANGEROUS - NARCOTICS
& commy propaganda -"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (3)" - d.a.levy
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"behind the scenes & under the desk with a mona lisa
smile"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (3)" - d.a.levy
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" YOU ARE WATCHING TELEVISION
& DYING
YOUR CHILDREN ARE BEING FUCKED
in the mouth with the poisons you feed them
in the ear with the tripe you tell them
in the mind with unusuable knowledge & lies
in the spirit with illusions
in the ass by the neighborhood 14 yr old queer who
learned to love with his mouth before he
could get an erection…
in dreams with compromise"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (3)" - d.a.levy
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"you are fucking your sons and daughters with apathy
& lack of vision"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (3)" - d.a.levy
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"HEADLINE: I AM NOT TRYING TO SCREW YOU
I AM TRYING TO COMMUNICATE
(this will be taken out of context)"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (3)" - d.a.levy
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"the
latest 18 yr old abortion on the scene sucking up
beers faster than Zorro could circumcise a bad ass
or whip a masochist in a gay bar CRACK -"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (3)" - d.a.levy
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"she is collecting the years like dust"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (4)" - d.a.levy
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"the green coyote in the wastebasket wept
as i uncovered a white sun
everyone tells me its not the same
as the one the people of cleveland
put in the sky - the sun rises in the
EAST
my white sun, white star
her green eyes like an egyptian cat
we are both dying"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (4)" - d.a.levy
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"TRINITY HEADLINE: the green gold father - the finance company &
the holy ghost of television have santified T.V.
DINNERS as a religious sacrament…"of course
i fall right into a trance after a quick frozen
dinner - who needs zen""
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (4)" - d.a.levy
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"its like st pauls cathedral
"& no one told me
what to do / with all this
SPACE
in my mind
a mirror
refleckted in & the moon SHOOTING RAYS
breaking from transparent flickering on the walls
PLASTIC FORM MMMmmmmm"
new colors?"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (5)" - d.a.levy
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"pharoah of Fairview park
the maniac Buddha mind of Brookpark Village
its an ibis/ a swallow/ a phoenix/
its SUPER funk….."
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - (6)" - d.a.levy
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" i eat WORDS IDEAS VISIONS
in an attempt to grasp sumthing
CONCRETE
to communicate"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for allen ginsberg" - d.a.levy
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" (there is no music in this country
all my thoughts turn into myths"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for allen ginsberg" - d.a.levy
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"FOR THE POET words ARE THE FASTEST CURRENCY"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for allen ginsberg" - d.a.levy
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"THE POETS MYTH IS
PORTABLE The Myth of Freedom is Portable…Pocket Ra is Portable"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for allen ginsberg" - d.a.levy
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"dont look outside there is nothing but the wrathful cardboard
deities of the T.V.Myth."
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for allen ginsberg" - d.a.levy
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"THE SUPERMARKET SUTRA…& the small tantric sermons
of the drive-in auto-mobile ashram-strobescopic flickerings of
limp-sex films…a teeny bopper who is dry thinks she is a
tantric Kwan-Yin trying to mother love & worshiping the motorcycle
OSIRIS his phallus lost in the dawn - drive-in sex at the gas
station GAS? OIL? GROPE? mechanical hands grope you in your
auto as you are gassed & oiled & later annointed at the drive-in
reading The Perfumed Garden by the light of the glove compartment"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for allen ginsberg" - d.a.levy
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" I KEEP TELLING
MYSELF, to take more drugs so i will be more coherent/ i keep
telling myself to leap like a flame from my window"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for allen ginsberg" - d.a.levy
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"Allen you may not be as holy as Jesus & the fat
funk brahmans of India, but you are certainly among the most holy
& sacred men in this desert.."
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for allen ginsberg" - d.a.levy
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"THIS a first creative act is the first step
to being reborn — An act of love"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for allen ginsberg" - d.a.levy
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"the words are just falling out of the pen"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for w.e. wyatt" - d.a.levy
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" i was to be reborn here
& you were to be reborn there
& that was that"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for w.e. wyatt" - d.a.levy
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" what do you think they will do when they discover
they cannot destroy our light"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for w.e. wyatt" - d.a.levy
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"oh well/ if the government wants to live on a war economy
i guess we can give them a war"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for art kleps" - d.a.levy
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" AMERICA WAKE UP!
GOD DOESNT WANT YOU TO KILL HIS ANGELS"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for art kleps" - d.a.levy
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" consider the weight of yr possessions
america, twice this weight you will
carry when you die"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for art kleps" - d.a.levy
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"i do not have the courage to say
this may be your last sacrifice"
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for art kleps" - d.a.levy
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"in the world of the spirit one does not
lose what he has gained."
- "Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions - for art kleps" - 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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