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American Sentence
Single Sentence containing seventeen syllables on one line read from
left to right.
The protocol of seventeen syllables makes it a loose
American form of the Haiku.
The concept of the ‘American Sentence’ as an art form originated
from the creativity of Allen Ginsberg.
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Last updated
August 08, 2011
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Allen Ginsberg
Although I consider much of Ginsberg's writings to be tasteless it seems
apropos to include some of the very original American Sentences from the
originator of the 'American Sentence'. Selections based upon taste.
"When he dropped dead I dedicated an L.A. Sewer to Ginsberg."
-Unintended American Sentence by - Michael Savage, Talk Show Host.
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Four skinheads stand in the
streetlight rain chatting under an umbrella.
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Allen Ginsberg - 1987
Bearded robots drink from
Uranium coffee cups on Saturn's ring.
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Allen Ginsberg - May 1990
Crescent
moon, girls chatter at twilight on the bus ride to Ankara.
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Allen Ginsberg - June 1990
The weary
ambassador waits relatives late at the supper table.
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Allen Ginsberg - June 1990
Rainy night on Union Square, full
moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead.
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Allen Ginsberg - August 8, 1990, 3:30 AM
Put on
my tie in a taxi, short of breath, rushing to meditate.
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Allen Ginsberg - November 1991
He stands at the church
steps a long time looking down at new white sneakers --
Determined, goes in the door quickly to make his Sunday confession.
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Allen Ginsberg - September 21, 1992
That grey-haired man in
business suit and black turtleneck thinks he's still young.
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Allen Ginsberg - December 19, 1992
American Sentences excerpted
from 'Cosmopolitan Greetings', Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (May 1995)
Reprinted
under the Fair Use doctrine of international copyright law
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