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THE ONLY GOD I NEED

12-16-2009 at 10:40:26 AM

THE ONLY GOD I NEED

…sea salt drinks from my lips,

and everything is primal

like the sun before time: silence

speaks without sound, witnessing

my stillness:…

(from: THE ONLY GOD I NEED)

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.