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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Poem. by Jack Kerouac
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:20:31 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>> Ironywaves wrote:
>
>>>  > Poem
>>>  >
>>>  > Anyway the time has come to explain
>>>  >     the Golden Eternity
>>>  > and how the iridescent paraphernalia of radiating candles
>>>  >     ceases
>>>  >     when mentation ceases
>>>  > because I know what it's like to die,
>>>  >     to cease mentating, one day I died,
>>>  > I fainted actually, I was stooping smelling
>>>  > strapping flowers in the cosmos yard
>>>  > of my mother's cozy flower house
>>>  > in Auffinsham Shire, in Queens,
>>>  > and stood up fast taking deep breath,
>>>  >     blood rushed from head, next thing I knew
>>>  >     woke up flat on my back in grassy sun
>>>  >     and had been out fine minutes.
>>>  >
>>>  > And I had seen the Golden Eternity.
>>>  >     The Lamb was alone with the Lamb.
>>>  >     The Babe was alone with the Baby Lamb.
>>>  >     The Shroud was alone with the Golden Shroud.
>>>  >
>>>  > I was alone with God, who
>>>  >     is God, who was me,
>>>  >  who was All,
>>>  >     he stood high on a hill
>>>  >  overlooking Mexico City
>>>  >     radiating messages
>>>  >     out of a white Tiot
>>>  >
>>>  > - Jack Kerouac, 1958
>>
>>
>>> Jack Kerouac explains God.
>>
>>
>>> This is a response to the post seen at:
>>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=657887953#657887953
>>
>>
>> A stone cold classic....!
>
> Good morning, Zod.
>
> Long time no see.
>
> 🙂

(Typo corrected)