Sunflower Sutra
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a southern pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry.
Sunflower sutra. Jack kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole companion we thought the same thoughts of the soul bleak and blue and sad eyed. Sunflower sutra i walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a southern pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry. Ginsbergs sunflower sutra was written in 1955 during ginsbergs time in berkeley california. Its overarching message is one of a desolate american landscape destroyed and devastated by the careless work of modern society.
One of my favorite recordings of the poem. It represents many of the themes that ginsberg would take up throughout his career. I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a southern pacific locomotive. Sunflower sutra is an account of a sojourn with jack kerouac in a railroad yard the discovery of a sunflower covered in dirt and soot from the railroad yard and the subsequent revelation.
Jack kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole companion we thought the same thoughts.