Four Tiny Sutras
For
Dimitri Mugianis
First
mind,
Best
mind,
Allen
Ginsberg said
D.E.
Do
Easy
William
S. Burroughs added
Let
it roll
was
the guidance
of
Jack Kerouac
and
the way
I
remember it goes
from
the Big O,
in
the land of plenty, have
nothing
to do with it
take the way of
the lowest, including
your legs, go
contrary, go
sing
—Charles Olson
Amsterdam,
July 8, 2007
John Sinclair is a poet, political activist, and counterculture icon, based in Detroit. His jazz poetry is often performed with the
Blues Scholars. His publications include It’s All Good: A John Sinclair Reader (2008), We Just Change the Beat: Selected Poems (1988)
and This Is Our Music (1965),
and the music-in-verse collections Fattening
Frogs for Snakes: Delta Sound Suite (2002), and Thelonious: a book of monk (1994).
