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00:00:00.00

Reads "Morning".

 

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00:02:17.65

Laughter and applause follows Ginsberg's last line, "Oh, love, my mouth against the black policeman's breast"

 

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00:02:23.77

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00:02:23.78

Reads "Today".

 

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00:10:04.06

Applause concludes this reading.

 

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00:10:07.65

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00:10:08.93

Reads "First party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels"

 

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00:11:22.72

Reads "Uptown".

 

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00:12:20.98

Loud laughter and applause follows Ginsberg's last line, "Dapper Irishman."

 

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00:12:29.86

Cut/Edit in tape/

 

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00:12:30.98

Reads "Holy Ghost, on the Nod, over the Body of Bliss"

 

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00:13:50.09

Ginsberg chants a section of poem following the line, "And Santa Barbara rejoices in the alleyways of Brindiban"; chants for approximately 30 seconds

 

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00:14:19.84

Continues reading text of poem.

 

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00:14:46.78

Applause concludes this reading

 

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00:14:52.09

Cut/Edit in tape; silence for 8 seconds; unknown time elapsed.

 

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00:14:59.14

Harmonium/music recommences; Ginsberg sings "Hari Om Namo Shivaya"

 

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00:25:17.14

Brief applause concludes this chant; Ginsberg continues playing without a break.

 

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00:25:22.69

Sings "Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?" with harmonium

 

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00:27:00.34

Sings "My mother bore me in the southern wild"

 

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00:30:11.91

Sings "Twas on a Holy Thursday"

 

Allen Ginsberg

00:31:37.52

I'll finish the Blake with "The Nurse's Song."  [sounds of furniture moving]  Get up a little closer to me.

 

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00:31:52.33

Sings "The Nurse's Song"

 

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00:32:27.27

Ginsberg interrupts himself during the line "The days of my youth"; says, "No...start again."

 

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00:32:32.51

Ginsberg begins "The Nurses Song" again.

 

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00:35:58.40

Applause concludes this song

 

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00:36:05.11

Silence on tape--Cut/Edit made.  Unknown time elapsed before recording recommences.

 

Allen Ginsberg

00:36:13.05

The continuation of a long poem on these dates.  Some of those who are specialists, some of those who are specialists in poesy will know a text published in a book I've been reading from, Planet News, called "Wichita Vortex Sutra."  This is the continuation of the same long poem a year later, bringing the war, the mental war up to 1967.  January, 1967.  Related to the poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra" in that it's crossing the central part of the United States again, north of Kansas through Nebraska, passing again by Lincoln, Nebraska.  A trip between Wichita, Kansas and Lincoln, Nebraska two...a year and a half earlier having been the subject of the text "Wichita Vortex Sutra."  This continuation.

 

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00:37:09.63

Reads "Red Guards battling country workers in Nanking"

 

Allen Ginsberg

00:43:12.24

A continuation of the same poem, between Kansas City and St. Louis.  Middle of the long poem on these dates.

 

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00:43:22.57

Reads "Leaving K.C., MO"

 

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00:52:41.06

Loud applause concludes this reading

 

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00:52:46.28

Cut/Edit in tape - unknown amount of time elapsed before recording recommences.

 

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00:52:47.46

Reads "Car Crash"

 

Allen Ginsberg

00:58:17.10

And "July 4th, 1969".

 

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00:58:19.54

Reads "July 4th, 1969."  Begins with the line, "Orange hawkeye," then interjects:  "Hawkeye is a New York state flower, a flower that grows in New York state, very tiny, bright orange, eyeball with a tiny brown, brownish, purplish pupil."

 

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00:58:35.02

Begins "July 4th, 1969" again.

 

Allen Ginsberg

01:00:49.50

Finish with a mantra.  Well or, read one last poem, which has been distributed by Dakota Broadsides, they're people from Logos, or connected with Logos, I think.  Is that not right?  Yeah.  I'll pass these out, I think.  It's a poem written in Grant Park on August 28th, '68, during the Democratic Convention.  Uh, Grant Park, the day after the election of, or the day after the nomination of Humphrey.

 

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01:01:27.45

Reads "Green air, children sit under trees with the old"

 

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01:02:25.86

Loud applause and laughter conclude the recording, following the line, "Who wants to be President of the Garden of Eden?"

 

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01:02:31.23

END OF RECORDING.