John Giorno

I am sure John Giorno is one of the coolest people on the planet.

Visit his website and you will be greeted with him standing in front of a wall of giant posters proclaiming “It’s not what happens, it’s how you handle it”, “We gave a party for the gods and the gods all came” and “Life is a killer”. If one things is for certain it is that with John Giorno poetry is alive. Paul Hoover calls Giorno the “leader in the development of poetry as performance and entertainment medium” and there is loads to see of that – not just in his written poetry but also in the various recordings by the Giorno Poetry Systems. I definitely recommend browsing through the sounds which are available on his website, featuring names like John Cage and Allen Ginsberg, Patty Smith, William Burroughs, Anne Waldman and Laurie Anderson – told you he was cool.

http://www.johngiorno.net/johngiorno.html

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Life is the worst decisions

After John Giorno

I wish you could

say something

for certain. I

hover. Feeling lo-res

acting out updates.

They are laughing too loud.

Someone is

always online.

They are laughing

way too loud

and

someone is always

online. The vibrations

felt

down to the

bone. I

meet. I

need to post.

Eyes wide at 3am by

blue light and

nervous. I

make the worst

decisions when

I am thinking

too much. I

make the worst

decision.

I am still typing.

He is

typing. I

make the

worst decisions when

I am thinking too

much.

Sunlight in my

highlights and large

shades

with a lo-fi filter.

That’s the trick

that works best.

I look the success

I have.

I look success.

I look success.

Like

it. We all filter.

I am a selective

human and maybe

not so. We

all filter. I

make the worst

decisions on

a Saturday night.

Zeros

and ones add

up to

a pretty big number.

I am user-generated too.

I am generated.

I generate

full-time even when I

shouldn’t. There’s a

tag

on pretty

much everything.

You can follow me.

You can follow me

anywhere. My trail smells

expensive. Comes cheap.

There’s a tag on

pretty

much everything.

I am up to date.

I am tactile.

I am intuitive.

I have feel.

I stay connected.

I stay connected.

I feed you if you feed me.

I am hashing things. 140

at a time. I am

cutting. My most rigorous

editor. I am hashing

things. An incision down the

spine. I make

the worse decisions

when I am

trying. I cut

myself. I make the

worse decisions.

I am online.

Life is a

killer.