Monday, April 05, 2004

These were some of my heroes in 1967 or '68

Me - if you were not you,
who would you like to be?

for Adrian Henri, who thought of it first

Tristan Tzara William Burroughs
Han-Shan The Rolling Stones
Che Guevara Akira Kurosawa
Charlie Mingus & LeRoi Jones

Borges Bunuel Bach Bosch & Breton
Gunter Grass & Heinrich Boll
Batman Robin Baron Munchausen
Ravi Shankar & Andy Warhol

Miles Davis Daisetz T. Suzuki
Rimbaud Verlaine & Baudelaire
Ginsberg Corso & Ferlinghetti
Jean Genet Apollinaire

Anais Nin & Henry Miller
Bob Dylan & Marcel Duchamp
Basho Cocteau Jean-Paul Belmondo
Dostoevsky & Terence Stamp

Ernst & Arp & Arthur Waley
Stanley Kubrick & William Eastlake
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Samuel Beckett & William Blake

Humphrey Bogart Frank O'Hara
Jimi Hendrix Pierre Reverdy
Alan Price & Alan Watts
Gary Snyder Rene Magritte

Paul Eluard Toshiro Mifune
Jack Kerouac Ray Bradbury
de Chirico & Otis Redding
John Lennon & Mahatma Gandhi

Ray Charles & Terry Southern
J.G.Ballard & John Rechy
W.C.Williams & W.C.Fields
Miro Catullus

&
last of all
me

from: The right foot of the giant

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