A Zen Experience

[ninth octave]

- Sensation-

He is a skull-brain come thru with the Answer-
      A "Zen" book.
Jack stammers,
         Burroughs is grim.
Burroughs is Dead.
        "Lazarus, go home."
Comes from a remove outside the world- even
        his own schemes finished
                Bleaker than Prospero appears-
All yr energy for naught
      a bitter answer 
             from the Vast.
Like a Cézanne Painting,
        has twisted art out of its human use
                and delivered a message
                     from beyond the stars.
Behind consciousness
                   -"No God"- "No Got"-
                      Thou Whelp of reasons & flesh heap
                Nothing to be Saved
                    
                      You are not you
                 There is nothing for you here
              
                           "Will the gentle reader?"
                             Please listen to his Nada-
                                       the planet shivers and is junk sick 
                                              for Death.
                              Deliverer from this Ego.
                   I shivered in my room on E.2 St. seeing suddenly a flash
                                  out of 9 years work with Burroughs on
                                                  the Naked Lunch-
                      
                    He  delivered
                            I grasped
                     What was beyond  ( us )
                             in the living grave.


 * Allen Ginsberg  journals  early fifties early sixties
T'was the Beatnik era in America.