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POETRY text by ALLEN GINSBERG portraits by MICHAEL STIPE thanks to the ALLEN GINSBERG ESTATE a poem by the late, acclaimed american beat generation author and poet allen ginsberg, written in san jose, in 1954. The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human — looks out of the heart burning with purity — for the burden of life is love, but we carry the weight wearily, and so must rest in the arms of love at last, must rest in the arms of love. No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love — be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love — cannot be…

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