H
e a r t S o n s & H e a r t D a u g h t e r s of A l l e n G i n s b e r g
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a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 4 : A r c h i
v e s E d i t i o n
RANDY ROARK
My Statement of
Purpose
To live with intensity.
To in all things at all times be true to
myself (this is my only life, it must be
lived by me or
lost).
To be always honest with others, and not
to refrain by remaining silent.
To accept the
constancy of change and ignorance and insight, and to hold in mind
that an entire lifetime can be reclaimed, and
often is, in a moment
one does not expect before it happens.
That the
purpose of our life is hidden from us until quite late in the story, and that,
whether we accept it
or not, we are going forward on faith and intuition.
My hand moving as though I might draw
what I’ve said, how what we want to say is arrived at suddenly, extravagant and
quick, even when we are suffering most or caught in the stormy light of fear,
feeling less heroic, less passionate, indifferent, like distant flames in the
dark sky or the moon shining in a pool.
[From the author’s Washington
D.C. Notebook, originally published in NHS 2006,http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs06/Roark.htm.]