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).
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