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Spell
Footnote To Howl
Written by - Allen Ginsberg
From - Peace and Noise
Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy
Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy
The world is holy
The soul is holy
The skin is holy
The nose is holy
The tongue and cock and hand and asshole
Holy
Everything is holy
Everybody's holy
Everywhere is holy
Everyday is in eternity
Everyman's an angel
The bum's as holy as the seraphim
The madman is holy as you, my soul, are holy
The typewriter is holy
The poem is holy
The voice is holy
The hearers are holy
The ecstasy is holy
Holy Peter
Holy Allen
Holy Solomon
Holy Lucien
Holy Kerouac 
Holy Huncke
Holy Burroughs
Holy Cassady
Holy the unknown buggered and suffering beggars
Holy the hideous human angels
Holy my mother in the insane asylum
Holy the cocks of the grandfathers of Kansas
Holy the groaning saxophone
Holy the bop apocalypse
Holy the jazz bands marijuana hipsters peace & junk & drums
Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements
Holy the cafeterias filled with the millions
Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets
Holy the lone juggernaut
Holy the vast lamb of the middle class
Holy the crazy shepherds of rebellion
Who digs Los Angeles
Is Los Angeles
Holy New York
Holy San Francisco
Holy Peoria & Seattle
Holy Paris
Holy Tangiers
Holy Moscow
Holy Istanbul
Holy time in eternity
Holy eternity in time
Holy the clocks in space
Holy the fourth dimension
Holy the fifth International
Holy the Angel in Moloch
Holy the sea
Holy the desert
Holy the railroad
Holy the locomotive
Holy the visions
Holy the hallucinations
Holy the miracles
Holy the eyeball
Holy the abyss
Holy forgiveness
Mercy
Charity
Faith
Holy Our bodies
Suffering
Magnanimity
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul

©1955 Allen Ginsberg
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