THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling writes: 

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)

UNBEATEN

EPISTOLARIANS

Kerouac was accused of "typing" after publishing ON THE ROAD

Burroughs CUT-UPS plumbed depths of random events

Neal Cassady was the original DEAN MORIARTY

Everybody was writing about each other/mythologizing their lives

Pre-confessional poets,they spilled the personal pronoun 

in diary entries and letters to each other ,sharing adventures

which evolved into short stories and hip novels.

This small seed grew out of threaded lives

Now they are dead(apart from honorable Ferlinghetti)-

we call the BEATS a collective movement/forgetting

each individual life that echoed through each others' correspondences

They have left.We only have text.Movies repeat a shadow's moving image

If we were alive then,we would dispute as witnesses

As of now,we take each @face value

awaiting a myth that fits our 2014 days..

Allen Ginsberg

Neal Cassady - The legendary Joan Anderson Letter -