Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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Friday, January 3, 2003

Sunflower Sutra Comments

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I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look for the sunset over the box house hills and cry.

Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole, companion, we thought the same thoughts of the soul, bleak and blue and sad-eyed, surrounded by the gnarled steel roots of trees of machinery.
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Michael Walker 05 December 2019

A poem which verges on prose, but it is poetry. One of Allen's best poems. 'You were no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a sunflower! '

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Anita Sharma 15 September 2015

brilliant write loved liked

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Tiffany C 25 June 2006

I love this poem. It is one of the best, written by one of the best of the Beat Generation.

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Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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