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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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BERKET AND THE STARS

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William Carlos Williams·1883–1963·Beat Generation
day on the boulevards chosen out of ten years ofstudent poverty! One best day out of ten good ones.Berket in high spirits--"Ha, oranges! Let's have one!"And he made to snatch an orange from the vender's cart. Now so clever was the deception, so nicely timedto the full sweep of certain wave summits,that the rumor of the thing has come down throughthree generations--which is relatively forever!