Cloths of Heaven

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Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

 - W.B.Yeats

Afternoons and coffee spoons.......... (Crash Test Dummies)

What is it that make me just a little be queasy?
There's a breeze that makes my breathing not so easy
I've had my lungs checked out with X rays
I've smelled the hospital hallways
Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline
Someday I'll wear pyjamas in the daytime
Times when the day is like a play be Sartre
When it seems a bookburning's in perfect order-
I gave the doctor my description
I've tried to stick to my persciptions
Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline
Someday I'll wear pyjamas in the daytime
Afternoons will be measured out
Measured out, measured with
Coffeespoons and T.S. Eliot
Maybe if I couls do a play-by-playback
I could change the test results that I will get back
I've watched the summer evenings pass by
I've heard the rattle in my bronchi...

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Ginsberg in Ireland 1993

Thornproof: A Beat poet in Dublin

In a postcard dated October 1993 Allen Ginsberg wrote:

Got to Belfast “Peace Line” full of armored cars painted brown… Bono of U2 Rock Band came to Dublin reading … & recruited me to perform…songs for a big TV Blockbuster Special. Part of my Dublin fee was great grey tweed suit so now I look like an elder Irish gentleman crossing customs borders.