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The door is open, the cricket is singing. Are you going around naked in the fields?
Like an immortal water, going in and out of everything. Are you going around naked The basil is not asleep, in the air? the ant is busy.
Are you going around naked in the house?
When was the last time you looked up the sky? Or screamed
out Allen Ginsberg’s Howl aloud? To the air. To the Lighthouse. To Nothing. To everything. To everyone. To the universe
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Madrid Poetry Center
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DESA 1002 Simon’s group Name: Sraah Ouyang SID: 309199905 City: Madrid Block Reference: D5
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And for that reason, or nothing at all, was where the concept of a performance poetry center sprouted from.
Spanish poetry
has flourished after the civil war. Look at Juan Ramon Jimenez. Look at Camilo Jose Cela.
Yet we sing for nothing but copper and dime. To live art is to communicate your
SELF.
To be able to dance on a rooftop and say,
‘WE ARE LIFE’
and proclaim yourself. The poet.