what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.