Occasionally,
our freedom intrudes on us

like real sunlight thru a snowglobe
like real sunlight on a painted sun

hot as a fresh-cut tree

as a flung side dappled saw

To turn and see it face to face,
to be

both sight and the self
it swings upon

or if this is,
as warning said,

unbearable,
then finally

to take the ax and cleave the two
and god bless the ax then

and god bless the ax

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In 1955, "City Lights’ Ferlinghetti recognizes greatness in ‘Howl’: Beat Generation writer Allen Ginsberg reads his epic poem 'Howl' at the Six Gallery at 3119 Fillmore St. Ferlinghetti is present and offers to publish 'Howl' along with Ginsberg’s shorter poems."

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"Being with these buildings, studying them, touching the rough grains of the concrete—it changes something. I learned a new way of seeing. Surfaces stopped receding. I saw the textures, the way that buildings were made. I started looking at architecture, rather than through it. This is one thing poetry can do for you: it can teach you to look at the world again."
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