Saturday, July 11, 2009

ALBERT SAIJO






LET US INVENT OUR NOBLE SAVAGE SO WE KNOW
ONE WHEN WE SEE ONE — LET US IMAGINE ANEW
THE PERFECTION AT THE BEGINNING OF THINGS
— NOBLE SAVAGE INNOCENT OF DEATH — NOBLE
SAVAGE UNDERSTANDS THE LANGUAGE OF THE
OTHER ANIMALS & TALKS TO THEM & LIVES IN
DEEP PEACE WITH THEM — NOBLE SAVAGE NO
NEED WORK — WITHOUT LABOR NOBLE SAVAGE
FEEDS AT ABUNDANT TREE OF LIFE — NOBLE
SAVAGE EATS AND IS EATEN IN DEEP PEACE —
NOBLE SAVAGE TALKS TO GOD — NOBLE SAVAGE
TRAVELS TO GOD NOT JUST IN SPIRIT BUT
CARNATE AND WHOLE — THEY TALK AT GOD’S
OASIS BENEATH THE IDEAL PALM — THEY TALK
IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANIMALS BARKING
AND TWITTERING — NOBLE SAVAGE NEVER FALL




ALBERT SAIJO is "George Baso" in Jack Kerouac's Big Sur. A native of Los Angeles, Saijo penned the classics The Backpacker, Trip Trap (with Kerouac and Lew Welch) and Outspeaks, a Rhapsody.