Patti Smith - Spell (Footnote to Howl) (2000/06/23) video free download

Recorded live on June 23, 2000 at the Mural Amphitheatre in Seattle, WA as part of the Experience Music Project concert series.

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

everyday is in eternity, every man is 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 the bop, apocalypse

holy the jazz bands, 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 hallucination

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

Allen Ginsberg (Berkeley, 1955)