Outfidel, I read that article...and...YEAH! Holy shit, that is fabulous. And that is it. That is pretty much how you do it.

And you know what? If you do it right, it usually does come out meaning something, and often something pretty deep, even if you don't know how that happened.

You know why? Because underlying your surface consciousness are your BASIC BELIEFS and your basic concerns...and they are very strong. If you simply surrender to the spontaneous process and let the words flow into their own patterns freely...by immediate instinct...without judgement...

THEN...

By God, something amazing comes forth and you speak your TRUTH. And that's why it can be so f*cking amazing.

Now, you get someone who has not much really going on in his personal philosophy, I mean little or no deeper postion on anything...so he's got a very superficial view of life...well, he probably can't write this way or if he does he just comes out with crap that really doesn't mean much of any consequence.

Dylan wasn't like that. He had a lot of profound beliefs at a deeper level. So did Lennon. I'm not so sure about McCartney. Maybe not in his case. Anyway, all that Bob or John had to do was surrender to the kinetic process of letting the words flow...and their deeper beliefs would inevitably rise forth in stunning imagery...if they got their calculating MIND out of the way and just let it HAPPEN!

That is how it's done. It took me about 20 years to figure out how to write like that, because I was very much taken with the powers of the analytical mind, and I didn't realize I had to get my logical mind to step aside in order to write freely!

It is a sheer delight to read that conversation between Dylan, Lennon, and McCartney. McCartney was only lookin' at the surface...with his mind...he really didn't get it. Bob was doing it instinctively...but there was more to it than he knew.

That IS the way to write poetry. You don't do it with your mind, you do it with your gut, your spirit, and your heart, and you TRUST the process.

The purpose the grass served on that occasion was, it relaxed them and loosened them up fast. They could've got there without the grass, but it would've taken longer...and it might not have happened at all...who knows?

I wish I could've been there to talk to Bob when he was that open. What a trip that would have been.

Wow. Thanks for that link!

- LH