Online Read Free Novel
  • Home
  • Romance & Love
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction
  • Mystery & Detective
  • Thrillers & Crime
  • Actions & Adventure
  • History & Fiction
  • Horror
  • Western
  • Humor

    Book of Sketches

    Prev Next


      The types come & go &

      never change, but history

      changes; it is history

      laid the pallor over the

      face of same-built

      Radio City executive — the

      history of his Race. But

      he who surmounts his race,

      & sits beneath history, is

      Fellaheen. Funny ideas.

      The realization of the

      death of a comrade is

      Jesus; the Millenium

      of Christ; the surprised

      news of the death

      of a comrade is Hip . . .

      Hip is Half.

      Meek is Full — or Whole

      The Millenium of the Meek (Fellaheen)

      Hip, & Culture, is Arrogance

      Hip is the final Dionysian culture

      or cult-form in the decaying

      West Arm of Europe —

      it wears a subtle mask, it

      covers nothing.

      Fellaheen is Meek & Rages

      like a Beast — the faces

      of matricides in Athens

      or Cairo afternoon editions;

      over the hot rooftops a

      woman wails.

      The (Purely) Meek Shall

      Inherit the Earth — the

      Children of God

      Children of Jesus

      of the Son of Man

      A mankind of saints shall

      occupy the final Earth,

      in endless contemplation of

      Heaven —

      Hip Fellaheen will lead

      to Meek Fellaheen, souls

      sitting round a fire in

      the open night

      All this (My Kingdom

      is Not of This World) is

      why 1947 was the

      “happiest” year of

      my life.

      Now no more tea,

      but contemplation of

      Good & Evil —

      Lust & Sorrow

      Burroughs the Boss of

      the Jungle —

      Carr the Boss of World

      News —

      Ginsberg the trembling

      Saint of the City —

      Cassady the worker

      of the wheel on the

      land & cunt-man

      Kerouac the Pilgrim

      of the Meek Fellaheen

      Huncke: - criminal hipster

      Joan Adams: - the Heroine

      of the Hip Generation

      John Holmes: - the

      Western “writer” &

      “critic” — late Civilization

      anxieties & word-torrents —

      Solomon: - Megalopolitan

      High Jew Enigma

      The Gospel of the Meek

      Fellaheen, Bringing History

      Round to Jesus, Begins in

      Sweet Actopan — &

      ends there

      I love the railroad

      because it is laid out on the

      land, & requires the

      eyes of Indians — but

      the Rail is Evil

      “Brother have you seen

      starlight on the rails?”

      “Yes” — but,

      the greatness of Wolfe

      must have been in his

      realization of the land —

      Come face to face with

      the lonely grave now,

      beyond it is Heaven

      — the lonely hole you’ll

      lie in is the only hole

      you’ll have — round it

      God has woven golden

      rewards the Fabric

      of His Glory —

      My father only now

      is blinking his eyes on

      the other side of Light —

      Jesus loved the

      Individual —

      America is Decoration

      now — planted palms in

      San Jose —

      The City fattens on

      the blood of Towns,

      then bursts. The

      Atom Bomb, or its

      satellite Power, will

      destroy New York City

      & all of Western Civilization

      from Marxist-

      Faustian Vladivostok

      westward round the

      globe to San Francisco.

      Then the Millenium

      of the Hip Fellaheen

      begins, in all lands.

      But Eden Heaven

      awaits the Milleniums

      of the Meek Fellaheen

      for all time

      The Mankind of Saints,

      that shall come after

      & finally.

      The Men from Mars

      are really the baldheaded

      bespectacled

      lobsters of American

      business. — really &

      seriously — their

      beady eyes, in fat,

      glint on the grave —

      Rocky C.

      A boxer with the

      sadness of a saint

      Faustian society had

      good intentions

      The latest sounds in

      hip bop are exactly

      like the latest developments

      in N.Y. Advertising

      — the latest ad shows

      an empty Coca Cola

      bottle, a model with

      a black patch over his

      eye; these trivial things

      are really milestones in

      the History of Advertising

      in Western Civilization, &

      are momentous in the

      concerned (Balzacian) circles;

      in Eternity of the Meek

      Fellaheen they have no

      more meaning than that

      a walnut fell on the

      head of the Patriarch this

      morning — or the

      Messiah’s pants fell off

      the chair —

      SKETCH

      Crazy California of my

      Selma days — tracks

      of old SP shining in hot

      birdy-tweeting breezy afternoon,

      De Jesus & Rodriguez

      market of white stucco

      with cars parked (2) in

      driveway & sign (same

      as above, over PAR-T-PAK

      board) — I see a

      whole bookshelf of wine

      bottles, GALLO too — &

      here in field, in matted

      brown grass under an

      avocado tree, I see

      an empty Gallo Tokay

      fifth & fillet of herring

      can & beer cans showing

      a royal feast of hoboes

      in their California, &

      bed-down grass of their

      reclinations — In De

      Jesus (Vegetable, Meats)

      I see a woman selecting

      a brace of Cokes — a

      car parks — across road

      is Ferry Morse Seed Co.,

      all spectral iron hell

      red last night with

      browndeep clouds of

      locomotive steam in

      Faustian sky —

      A little strange SP

      handtruck (handcar)

      (in Kansas Rock Island

      boys say “Nothin to

      worry about but a nigger

      on a handcar” — pricks)

      goes by, with 5 Mex

      Indians, one Negro —

      they point to rails for

      foreman Mex who has

      sledgehammer — a Jet

      screams above, from

      Moffett Field — upper,

      paler B-29 groans —

      — Seed

      Co. is modern flat

      plant, nobody in

      sight, the machine

      silent in the red sun, —

      At night not a

      human in sight,

      just cars smooth in the

      hiway, the rails gleaming,

      cruel & cold to the touch,

      slightly sticky
    with

      steel death, — lights of

      airport pokers, distant

      roar of Jets in wind

      tunnels, far off joints

      slamming, planes carrying

      Edison’s light across the

      stars & freights of

      Machine Humanbeings —

      & the block lights in

      the night that give

      panic or peace

      according to the

      switch points as

      manipulated — too

      much iron, too much

      for me — but in

      afternoon, De Jesus &

      the Tokay wine, the

      roadbed rocks have little

      silver gleams & waving

      dry tendrils of interspersed

      grass & crazy shuddering

      little flowers & crackly

      wind-weeds & pieces

      of wood, hand towel

      paper, cellophane

      chip bags, gum wrapper,

      little ants that bite —

      the juice of the grape

      stored darkly in the

      cool interior store, I’m

      wantin a poorboy —

      Beyond pink brick Seed

      Co. with its streamline

      built in windows that

      hide controlled vibrating

      horror (Rocky Mt. Mills)

      is a field of fruit trees,

      iron & barbwire fenced

      from precious Company —

      little white cottages of

      the railroad earth, with

      end of day papa car

      parked, little fruit

      trees — haze of

      sun — I’m sitting

      by silver painted SP

      Telephone box & eq’pt —

      wearing workshoes, asbestos

      gloves now black,

      soiled timetable, thick

      socks, ankle strap from

      swollen ankle missing

      bottom climb bar &

      falling on rocks in

      grim railroad dark —

      blue work pants, too

      tight, — gray workshirt,

      — baseball hat for sun

      — dreaming of my

      $500 stake & Mexico

      & the Millenium of the

      Hip Fellaheen this winter

      bla bla —

      The Millenium of

      the Meek Fellaheen

      The intensity of D. H.

      Lawrence was not carnal

      A woman’s cunt is

      the soft avenue to her

      womanhood, the godhead

      of human generations,

      the yearning point

      of man — I believe

      the celibacy in the

      teachings of Christ were

      Paulist & Jewish-Castration

      -Circumcision cult

      in origin — for if His

      Kingdom is not of this

      World, & the Soul is to

      be Saved, it makes that

      difference inside a

      woman’s legs when her

      permission is given —

      Neal’s Pornographilia

      is religiously intense —

      The Phallic Cults

      worship generation of

      the species; the Aramaean

      worships its Salvation

      Jesus did not say,

      but I believe in a

      woman’s permission

      Retirement annuities

      that grow out of group

      life insurance & hospital

      plans & sick benefits, sponsored

      by the modern big

      company, are only an

      attempt to cut out turn-

      over of employees —

      imagine devoting yr. entire

      life, its soul & meaning

      to a pineapple company

      & accepting its retirement

      annuities for reward —

      “Stay with the Machine,

      boys, dont need to run

      away or shift to other

      cogs, you’re just as well

      off in this one — we offer

      YOU SECURITY TILL THE

      GRAVE.” — never mind

      the Saviour, he never took

      a shower. This company-

      sponsored insurance, that

      takes bites out of the

      victims’ pay all their

      lives to support itself (the

      money clangs hollowly

      from the Machine’s

      twidget to the Machine’s

      twadget) is called

      protection — protection

      against their being left

      to drift free outside the M.

      (M. for machine).

      Big Business in Late

      America prides itself on

      growing figures, just as

      a spokesman for the

      Golden Age, “the American

      Explosion,” points with

      pride at the 3 inches

      added height average of

      American kids.

      If not the highest,

      then it’s the “fourth

      highest” etc.

      The faces & demeanors of

      successful young American

      businessmen: - a guarded

      sense of one’s own

      gentlemanness — the

      face taut & ready to

      smile the hand-shake

      smile — a terrible

      concern in the expression

      that the subject wont

      reciprocate the same

      escalator tension from

      empty gesture to empty

      gesture — these gestures

      are the ritual of Late

      High Civilization — the

      American workingmen

      have adopted a surl

      in superficial opposition —

      but the Executive

      secretly & queerly desires

      the Worker’s “tough look”

      & the Worker (excuse me,

      the Man of Production

      in New Overalls) secretly

      practises Executive Smoothness

      before his mirror.

      Ad infinitum —

      First signs of the

      Machine really destroying

      itself & People is the

      guided drone plane with

      Atom Bomb warhead

      — “DRONE” is the

      horror name, deeply

      named by mysterious

      High Priests in the Forums

      of the Pentagon Glare.

      . . (I worked on the Pentagon)

      The gray drab Indian

      village near Actopan, no

      Coca Cola, no Orange Crush,

      just dysentery-ridden

      water, & lizards on the

      old walls — Jesus has

      made it hard on us.

      But a maiden wears

      a smile, & a little

      hidden ribbon of meaning,

      & at the brook the

      waters ripple in the

      shade of shepherd

      trees — the flies are

      insistent, but so is the

      soul in its thoughts &

      loves, O Man, Poor Man

      — Thirsts developed in us by

      the Machine are insatiable

      As for “freedom” —

      there’s no doubt of

      freedom in Fellaheen

      Cathy says: “Write it

      right here now.”

      “Look at her legs

      move” (the bug) “she

      wants to eat.”

      J: Nobody eat the

      bug.

      C.: The bug eats the

      shades up.

      J.: I bounce (bowtz)

      Pee-pit (paper)

      We baint (paint)

      That paused look of a

      man pissing —

      “Silly
    Faust — & the

      mystery of history”

      J: Arent you dired?

      C: It’s a nightgown —

      The Agrarian American

      is the strongest American

      because nearest to Fella-

      heen condition

      Santa Barbara

      1. New notebook

      2. Spoon

      3. Toothbrush

      4. Lunch

      5. Dostoevsky

      6. Matches for lamps

      The Fellaheen women

      let the men run things

      — in the driveway of

      the country store on

      Sunday afternoon, they

      wait in the car & smile

      while the men goof with

      beer cans — These are

      Mexicans, Indians, of the

      California countryside —

      Western Civilization women

      would say “Are you

      coming John?”

      American woman run

      things, even kicks, —

      have made life a drab &

      sorrowful for their

      Milquetoast Machine

      husbands, the dumb fucks —

      also the American women

      have subordinated everything

      to “my child” — my

      so-called child — (the child

      of God, lady) — & so

      make the husbands attend

      to the children only —

      Fellaheen children are in

      the background silent,

      watchful, & awed —

      American kids are loud,

      nasty, forward, disagreeable

      at 4, & bored at 16

      The horrible bitches have

      no regard for man

      anyway, just their

      itchy old twats & what’s

      come out of it — It

      would never occur to

      American women &

      American Old Woman

      Society that a 80

      year old man’s life

      is more valuable than

      an infant’s life because

      it has acquired its

      value — They think

      in terms of “My Child”

      with an almost-mystical

      sense of the Future

      as abstract as everything

      else Faustian —

      A jet plane is an

      abstraction because it

      serves absolutely no

      purpose to body or

      soul — just flies —

      All their other abstractions

      — Communism,

      Freedom, etc. — are

      abstractions within the

      Abstract Structure of the Machine —

     


    Prev Next
Online Read Free Novel Copyright 2016 - 2026