Gregory Corso – “Destiny”

August 26, 2008 at 8:48 pm (Gregory Corso, Poetry & Literature, The Beats)

They deliver the edicts of God
without delay
And are exempt from apprehension
from detention

And with their God-given
Petasus, Caduceus, and Talaria
ferry like bolts of lightning
unhindered between the tribunals
of Space & Time

The Messenger-Spirit
in human flesh
is assigned a dependable,
self-reliant, versatile,
thoroughly poet existence
upon its sojourn in life

It does not knock
or ring the bell
or telephone

When the Messenger-Spirit
comes to your door
though locked
It’ll enter like an electric midwife
and deliver the message

There is no tell
throughout the ages
that a Messenger-Spirit
ever stumbled into darkness.

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