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Jane Stevens

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“We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.”
― Doris Lessing

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“See
it was like this when
we waltz into this place.
A couple of papish cats
is doing an Aztec two-step

And I says
Dad let's cut
but then this dame
comes up behind me see
and says
you and me could really exist

Wow I says
Only the next day
she has bad teeth
and really hates
poetry.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

tags: beat, poetry

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“A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.”
― Doris Lessing

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“I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind

tags: america, poem, poetry, united-states, united-states-of-america, us, waiting, wonder

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“Don’t Let That Horse . . .” from A Coney Island of the Mind.

Don’t let that horse
eat that violin

cried Chagall’s mother

But he
kept right on
painting

And became famous

And kept on painting
The Horse With Violin In Mouth

And when he finally finished it
he jumped up upon the horse
and rode away
waving the violin

And then with a low bow gave it
to the first naked nude he ran across

And there were no strings
attached”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind

tags: creativity, damn-the-man-or-the-mom, self-expression

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