3.16.2009

iMgonnaPUTyouDownFORaWhile

otis rush

MindfulislandWorld

photo: Coney Island-1945-Wegee

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
'suffering humanity' ...


from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island Of The Mind, 1958
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