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Victor Bockris

Beat Punks

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    It was the first time I had ever seen anybody do that, and I was fascinated, the way a passing driver is fascinated by a car crash.
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    Drugs did not make Bill go away, when I knew him; for the most part, they made him more present.
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    “It is necessary to travel,” he said, “it is not necessary to live,” meaning that a life without travel of the spiritual, psychic, intellectual kind is not worth living.
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    He has the ability to zoom in on the heart of things.
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    Jim Carroll is one of America’s true poets. I mean, he is a true poet. It kills me he’s twenty-three, he wrote all his best poems the same year of his life as Rimbaud did. He had the same intellectual quality and bravado as Rimbaud. He’s a junkie. He’s bisexual. He’s been fucked by every male and female genius in America. He’s been fucked over by all those people. He lives all over.
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    Jim Carroll is one of America’s true poets. I mean, he is a true poet. It kills me he’s twenty-three, he wrote all his best poems the same year of his life as Rimbaud did. He had the same intellectual quality and bravado as Rimbaud. He’s a junkie. He’s bisexual. He’s been fucked by every male and female genius in America. He’s been fucked over by all those people. He lives all over.

    He lives a disgusting life. Sometimes you have to pull him out of a gutter. He’s been in prison. He’s a total fuck-up. But what great poet wasn’t?
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    BOCKRIS: Do you think you’re a genius?

    SMITH: I’m not very intelligent.

    BOCKRIS: But genius is something else. So you agree, right?

    SMITH: Yeah, yeah. It’s like when I was a little kid I always knew that I had some special kind of thing inside me. I mean I wasn’t very attractive. I wasn’t very verbal. I wasn’t very smart in school. I wasn’t anything that showed physically to the world that I was something special but I had this tremendous hope all the time, you know, I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going no matter how fucked up I was. Just had this kind of light inside me that kept spurring me on.
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