Spell

Holy, holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy

The world is holy
The soul is holy
The skin is holy
The nose is holy
The tongue and cock and hand
And asshole, holy

Everything is holy
Everybody's holy
Everywhere is holy
Every day is in eternity
Every man's an angel

The bum's as holy as the seraphim!
The madman is holy as you, my soul are holy
The typewriter is holy
The poem is holy
The voice is holy
The hearers are holy
The ecstasy is holy

Holy Peter, holy Allen
Holy Solomon, holy Lucien
Holy Kerouac, holy Huncke
Holy Burroughs, holy Cassady
Holy the unknown buggered
And suffering beggars
Holy the hideous human angels

Holy, my mother in the insane asylum
Holy the cocks of the grandfathers of Kansas
Holy, the groaning saxophone
Holy, holy is the bop apocalypse
Holy the jazzbands marijuana
Hipsters peace and junk and dreams

Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements
Holy the cafeterias filled with the millions
Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets
Holy the lone juggernaut
Holy, the vast lamb of the middle class!
Holy the crazy shepherds of rebellion
Who digs Los Angeles is Los Angeles!

Holy New York, holy San Francisco
Holy Peoria and Seattle
Holy Paris, holy Tangiers
Holy Moscow, holy Istanbul!

Holy time in eternity
Body holy, eternity in time
Holy the clocks in space
Holy, the fourth dimension
Holy, the fifth international
Holy, the angel in Moloch

Holy, the sea, holy the desert
Holy, the railroad, holy the locomotive
Holy the visions, holy the hallucinations
Holy the miracles, holy the eyeball
Holy, the abyss!

Holy, forgiveness, mercy, charity, faith
Holy, ours bodies suffering magnanimity
Holy, the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent
Kindness of the soul