Song from Howls (Demos) by Sylvia Plath, WC Williams, TS Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Elise Cowen, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac

Song
(By Allen Ginsberg)

The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction
under the burden
;of your silence

the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.

*I lie on my back at midnight

hearing the marvelous strange chime

of the clocks, and know it's mid-
night and in that instant the whole

world swims into sight for me

Who can deny?
In dreams
it touches
the body,
in thought
constructs
a miracle,
in imagination
anguishes
till born

but we carry the weight
wearily
no sleep
without dreams
of love--
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines,
the final wish
is love
the weight is too heavy


*I am hurt

I am scared

I want to live

I want to die

I don't know

Where to turn

In the Void to burn

And when

To cut

Out and drown

must give
for no return
as thought
is given
in solitude
in all the excellence
of its excess.

*For no Church told me

No Guru holds me

No advice

Just stone

Of New York
Hitting your head

In with Buzz

Of glittergold

Heaven's Angels

Wailing


Saying


We've been waiting for you

Since Morning

This transcendental
Brilliance

Is the better part

(of Nothingness

I sing)

yes, yes,
that's what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.

-In my beginning is my end
-In my end is my beginning
;in the middle of it all your silence hangs around my neck
;and sings its song.
-In my end is where I begin.

• Folk
• dark ambient
• dream pop
• indie folk
• indie pop
• witch pop
• New York