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- Jack Kerouac - My Views on Religion.
Hello all - I missed a few weeks of the Beat Quote of the Week due to
the trip to the Beat Angel premier in LA (no internet access in the Beatmobile
yet).
At a related poetry event in LA celebrating Beat Angel (www.beatangel.com)
I was asked to read some of Jack's poetry. got a great response to one
of my favorites from "
Pomes All Sizes":
MY VIEWS ON RELIGION
Heaven has everything to do with healing
and healing has nothing to do with heaven
If Jesus Christ is the son of God so am I
If suffering has anything to do
- if cake won't do, or cookies -
Heaven has everything to do with the way I feel
and I say HEAVEN! what you doin
down there, making like youse out
to beat hell - HEAVEN! How come
How come you got sixteen-year-old beauties
with lips parted open, in the moonlight
Italian balcony of me heart! HEAVEN!
Ope up them crazy portal gates
and let the people pass, people pass
Revoke the Harrison Act! It is a Barbaric
act - It will cause desperate criminals
and gunmen to arise from our midst,
for evidential reasons - Ope nope -
It's like Prohibition, it won't, work,
- If the people want alcohol and dope
let em have alcohol and dope and all
the poison they can get if poison they want
- you can't tell the people what
to take in themselves - you can't stop
the people - I say this in the name of Peace
and I am not a Communist I'm a Dove
O ope them gordol golden gates
Buddha was not a medicine man,
he was a beyond-partition man, -
nor did he "limp for duty
and crawl
for charity"
- Chuangste
Buddha is God, the Father of Jesus Christ
AND GOD IS GOD
Read more about Kerouac's religious views by adding "Scripture
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