#visionsofcody

[petitepowerhouse]

I thought that I was broken

That id never love again

It was just a game I was sick of playing

Unlovable until the end

Too many open wounds

From battles won and lost

Trauma settled over me

It wasn’t worth the cost

I was told I was like a hurricane

Creating fear in my giant wake

But anger had never been my problem

It was fear that placed its stake

All the things he said he hated about me

You don’t seem to mind at all

I can take it, honey, you say to me

I will catch you when you fall

[ginzyblog]

Bob Donlin (Rob Donnelly, Kerouac's Desolation Angels), Neal Cassady, myself in black corduroy jacket, Bay Area poets’ “court-painter” Robert LaVigne & painter-poet Larry Ferlinghetti in front of his City Lights Bookshop, Broadway & Columbus North Beach. Donlin worked seasonally as Las Vegas waiter & oft drank with jack K., Neal looks good in teashirt, Howl first printing (500 copies) hadn't arrived yet from inexpensive Villiers Press, London, we were just hanging around, Peter Orlovsky stepped back off curb & snapped shot, San Francisco California Spring 1956. (photo snapped by Peter Orlovsky, caption: Allen Ginsberg.  Courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate /  Getty Images)#nealcassady #allenginsberg #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylightsbooks #pocketpoets #instapoets #robertlavigne #peterorlovsky #jackkerouac #desolationangels #visionsofcody #deanmoriarty #ontheroad #literary #beatgeneration #sanfrancisco #howl #columbusavenue (at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0hBjqGheHG/?igshid=1ph20i470epn5

[ginzyblog]

Jack Kerouac was born this day in 1922. Happy Birthday Jack! —. “Jack Kerouac, railroad brakeman’s rule-book in pocket, couch pillows airing on fire-escape overlooking backyard clotheslines three flights up, my apartment 206 East 7th Street between Avenues Band C, Lower East Side Manhattan. Jack’d completed “On the Road”  (after publishing “The Town and the City”  four years earlier) as well as “Visions of Cody”  and “Dr Sax”, and’d begun “Book of Dreams” and “Pic”, was in the midst of “Subterraneans”  affair with ‘Mardou Fox’, that novel completed same year along with his romance “Maggie Cassady.” Burroughs then in residence edited “Yage Letter” and “Queer” mss, Gregory Corso visited that season, probably September 1953.  (photo & caption Allen Ginsberg  courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #jackkerouac #happybirthday #beatgeneration #nyc #newyorkcity #lowereastside #1950s #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #williamsburroughs #allenginsberg #opntheroad #visionsofcody #kerouac (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu64lIBHbJ5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oyfalrc62jse

[ginzyblog]

Neal Cassady & Al Hinkle playing chess at Allen’s 1010 Montgomery Street Apartment, late Spring 1955. Al Hinkle lived to the age 92, passing away three days ago, December 26. He was Big Ed Dunkel in On The Road &  Slim Buckle in Visions of Cody and Desolation Angels 

 [Photo: Allen Ginsberg Courtesy Allen Ginsberg Estate / Stanford University Libraries]  

#alhinkle #nealcassady #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #bigeddunkel #slimbuckle #ontheroad #jackkerouac #desolationangels #visionsofcody (at San Francisco, California)

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