Birthday Guys

Happy birthday Allen Ginsberg:
June 3rd 1926

Buddha's a help, promises ordinary mind no nirvana
--coffee, alcohol, cocaine, mushrooms, marijuana, laughing gas?
Nope, too heavy for this lightness lifts the brain into blue sky
at May dawn when birds start singing on East 12th street
--Where does it come from, where does it go forever?

-From Five A.M. by Allen Ginsberg

And while I'm at it;
Paul Gauguin- June 7th 1848:















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