He'd go on for hours about his method, practicing inebriated glossolalia through cracked lips
to friends and strangers and all bebop, rocksteady, rollers, razorgirls and dim drunk chumps grasping the polished oak bar slab like floating refuse in the south pacific.
Among the writings he set down specifically about his "Spontaneous Prose method",
the most concise would be Belief and Technique for Modern Prose, a list of thirty "essentials."
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try to never get drunk outside your own house
Be in love with your life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be a crazy dumb-saint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
No time for poetry but exactly what is
Visionary tics shivering in the chest
In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
Like Proust be an old teahead of time
Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
Accept loss forever
Believe in the holy contour of life
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better
Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in your morning
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language & knowledge
Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures of it
Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
You're a Genius all the time
Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
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