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About Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Vast Confusion Long long I lay in the sands
Sound of trains in the surf
in subways
of the sea
And an even greater undersound
of a vast confusion in the universe
a rumbling and a roaring
as
if some enormous creature turning
under sea and earth
a billion sotto voices murmuring
a vast muttering
a swelling stuttering
in ocean’s speakers
world’s voice-box heard with ear to sand
a shocked
echoing
a shocking shouting
of all life’s voices lost in night
And the tape of it
someow running
backwards now
through the Moog Synthesizer of time and sea
Chaos unscrambled
back to the first harmonies
And the first light
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