Jack
heart eye beer
The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.
writing night giving
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.
dream stars air
The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
wisdom sleep bed
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
art mistake past
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.
all-things good-will
Something good will come of all things yet
wisdom rich
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
beautiful stars moon
And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
wisdom tears ends
It all ends in tears anyway.
dream wisdom morning
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.
wisdom pain real
Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
music wisdom inspirational-music
The only truth is music.
fall jumping boulders
Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
girl wisdom drinking
Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.