Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 85
Rocket." "Death to Van Gogh's Ear," "The Lion for Real," and "Ignu." "Poem
Rocket" contains a line that evokes extra-terrestrial beauty better than the
best of the science-fiction writers: "Which way will the sunflower turn
surrounded by millions of suns?" And "The Lion for Real" brings the Spirits
of Terror to the page in a way that makes one think of Dante; you can't
laugh off Ginsberg's Lion anymore than you can smile at Dante's hell, or
Blake's Tyger, or Melville's Whale. Ginsberg has seen the Lion, and by God,
he makes you see it, too. Naturally, Life magazine describes his vision as
"sick" and "warped"; the System which is willing to create twenty thousand
abnormal babies everytime it sets off a nuclear bomb cannot afford to listen
to the reports of this extremely delicate instrument, the "Defense Early
Warning Radar System" that is the soul of the poet today.