The world was all before them

I've been listening to this soundtrack on a fairly regular basis for months, and I only just heard the lyrics of this one clearly yesterday.<3

Unpunctuated howling

Trying to read Ginsberg’s “Howl.” I’m having a difficult time with this. It’s one big run-on sentence. This is why I do not write–and read very little–poetry. I don’t do well with this kind of disorganization of words. I’ll leave that to those to whom it appeals. The reason my writing contains a profusion of colons and semi-colons is in fact due to my horror of run-on sentences with no real break in them. This is probably also why the only poetry I do love and occasionally attempt to write is that in classic blank verse.


ETA - On the plus side, I read several other poems, and I really liked "A Supermarket in California" and "Transcription of Organ Music."