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Kenneth Patchen - The Artist`s Duty
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	So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame
	To extend all boundaries
	To fog them in right over the plate
	To kill only what is ridiculous
	To establish problem
	To ignore solutions
	To listen to no one
	To omit nothing
	To contradict everything
	To generate the free brain
	To bear no cross
	To take part in no crucifixion
	To tinkle a warning when mankind strays
	To explode upon all parties
	To wound deeper than the soldier
	To heal this poor obstinate monkey once and for all

	To verify the irrational
	To exaggerate all things
	To inhibit everyone
	To lubricate each proportion
	To experience only experience

	To set a flame in the high air
	To exclaim at the commonplace alone
	To cause the unseen eyes to open

	To admire only the abrsurd
	To be concerned with every profession save his own
	To raise a fortuitous stink on the boulevards of truth and beauty
	To desire an electrifiable intercourse with a female alligator
	To lift the flesh above the suffering
	To forgive the beautiful its disconsolate deceit

	To flash his vengeful badge at every abyss

	To HAPPEN

	It is the artist’s duty to be alive
	To drag people into glittering occupations

	To blush perpetually in gaping innocence
	To drift happily through the ruined race-intelligence
	To burrow beneath the subconscious
	To defend the unreal at the cost of his reason
	To obey each outrageous inpulse
	To commit his company to all enchantments.
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