Thanks to the idiots at Microsoft, I'm not able to convert my scan of Wichita Vortex Sutra into HTML and post to this blog. The special Word coding -- more complicated with every new version and requiring a special degree to figure out -- gets in the way of the blog formatting.

I'll put an HTML version on a separate page of the site, and here is a nice printable .pdf version. Please don't tell Harper Perennial I'm putting these up. If you find any typos, please email them to me and I'll make corrections. The much longer part II of this poem is on the way.

Ginsberg's poem has been referenced frequently elsewhere on this site, especially in the comments section to Barrett Watten's War = Language piece, where David Perry has posted many lines from the poem already.