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Take the whole kit

James Broughton, James Broughton poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Beat poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by James Broughton
(1913 - 1999) Timeline

Original Language
English
Secular or Eclectic : Beat
20th Century

Take the whole kit
with the caboodle
Experience life
don't deplore it
Shake hands with time
don't kill it
Open a lookout
Dance on a brink
Run with your wildfire
You are closer to glory
leaping an abyss
than upholstering a rut

 

 

-- from Little Sermons of the Big Joy: Poems, by James Broughton

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Themes

  Death
  Light
  Trembling
 
 


Recommended Books


All: A James Broughton Reader, by James Broughton
The Films of James Broughton: DVD, by James Broughton
Little Sermons of the Big Joy: Poems, by James Broughton
Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996, by James Broughton

 

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