Talking About The Past Is

But Sometimes Everything I Write With The Threadbare Art Of My Eye Seems A Snapshot

Talking About The Past Is Like A Cat's Trying To Explain Climbing Down A Ladder.

And Blue-lung'd Combers Lumbered To The Kill.

It's A Completely Powerful And Serious Book, As Good As Anything In Prose Or Poetry Written By A 'beat' Writer, And One Of The Most Alive Books Written By Any American For Years. I Don't See How It Could Be Considered Immoral.

I Will Catch Christ With A Greased Worm, And When The Prince Of Darkness Stalks My Bloodstream To Its Stygian Term . . . On Water The Man-fisher Walks.