Listen To The Silence Inside The Illusion

The Beat Generation, That Was A Vision That We Had, John Clellon Holmes And I, And Allen Ginsberg In An Even Wilder Way, In The Late Forties, Of A Generation Of Crazy, Illuminated Hipsters Suddenly Rising And Roaming America, Serious, Bumming And Hitchhiking Everywhere, Ragged, Beatific, Beautiful In An Ugly Graceful New Way.

La Is The Loneliest And Most Brutal Of American Cities.

The Whole Mad Swirl Of Everything That Was To Come Began Then.

Eager For Bread And Love.

Everything I Wrote Was True Because I Believed What I Saw.