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Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

Spontaneous Prose method,
… a list of thirty "essentials."

• 1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own
joy
• 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
• 3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
• 4. Be in love with yr life
• 5. Something that you feel will find its own form
• 6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
• 7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
• 8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
• 9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
• 10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
• 11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
• 12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
• 13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
• 14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
• 15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
• 16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
• 17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
• 18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
• 19. Accept loss forever
• 20. Believe in the holy contour of life
• 21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
• 22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
• 23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
• 24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language &
knowledge
• 25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
• 26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
• 27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
• 28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier
the better
• 29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

July 13, 1946

Dear General MacArthur,

With your permission
I offer wishes of good health
During this heat
That burns anything

The words I slowly put together
Do not flow easily, they only fill my heart

Recently, fulfilling
Your heart’s desire
You removed the whaling
Moratorium.
Your gesture brings
A much needed food
To our community
And families

The words I slowly put together
Do not flow easily, they only fill my heart

A million year old fossil
I send to you
This comes from my family
And the ancient sea
A prehistoric impression
Of the modern krill
She feeds the noble whale
And offers you longevity

The words I slowly put together
Do not flow easily, they only fill my heart

Finally, please take good care in the heat.

Sincerely yours,
Shizuka