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Dylan Thomas – Orecchi ascoltano nelle torrette / Ears in the turrets hear

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, Isle of the Dead, 1905 ca Ears in the turrets hearHands grumble on the door,Eyes in the gables seeThe fingers at the locks.Shall I unbolt or stayAlone till the day I dieUnseen by stranger-eyesIn this white house?Hands, hold you poison or grapes?Beyond this island boundBy a thin sea of fleshAnd a bone …

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Charles Bukowski – Mangiato dalle farfalle / I am eaten by butterflies

John Dykstra, Penalty box, 2016 Maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepstakes maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or a rich lesbian at the top of the hill maybe reincarnation as a frog… or $70,000 found floating in a plastic sack in the bathtub. I need help I am …

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Allen Ginsberg – Howl/Urlo (for Carl Solomon)

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural …

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