San Francisco Beat

Broadway at Columbus

Chinatown fades into

little Italy, blessed by

Saint Francis of Assisi

omne ignotum

Chianti and Brad

at Ristorante Franchino

photos of young mama and

papa hang on the walls

buon appetito

City Lights, across the alley

Vesuvio Cafe where

50s Beats spouted prose

while pissing in the john

cool man

Ginsberg's Howl banned

Burroughts was Junkie

pre Condor and Carol Doda

Kerouac lived On the Road

the Beat bible

In that flicker between

when The Gate glows sienna

and neon lights Broadway

young poets of North Beach

hear the rhythm of the Beats

leh

unquiet repose

electrical energy triggers

gates in the brain, synapses fire

impinge upon nervous system

grand mal, dis-ease
inflicted by the gods

activates pineal gland

supernova center eye

electric current overwhelms

causing failure in consciousness

mc2 = Energy = liberated matter

information travels faster

than light into the future

kundalini flow of energy

order out of chaos

photo & text by leh