"     ... surrounded by the gnarled steel roots of trees of machinery

The oily water on the river mirrored the red sky...

Look at the Sunflower, he said, there was a dead gray shadow

     against the sky, big as man, sitting dry on top of a pile

     of ancient sawdust—"

"... corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered

     crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be-toothless

     mouth of sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head 

     like a dried wire spiderweb,

leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem, gestures from the

     sawdust root, broke pieces of plaster fallen out of the

     black twigs, a dead fly in its ear..."

(Allen Ginsburg's Sunflower Sutra, 1955)

"A train roars through him whistle blowing... boat whistle, foghorn, sky rockets burst over oily lagoons... penny arcades open into a maze of dirty pictures... ceremonial cannon boom in harbour... a scream shoots down a white hospital corridor... out along a wide dusty street between palm trees, whistle out across the desert like a bullet (vulture wings husk in the dry air), a thousand boys come at once in outhouses, bleak public school toilets, attics, basements, treehouses, Ferris wheels, deserted houses, limestone caves rowboats, garages, barns, rubbly windy city outskirts behind mud walls (smell of dried excrement)... black dust blowing over lean copper bodies... ragged pants dropped to cracked bleeding bare feet... (place were vultures fight over fish heads)... by jungle lagoons, vicious fish snap at white sperm floating on black water, sand flies bite the copper ass, howler monkeys like wind in the trees (a land of great brown rivers where whole trees float, bright coloured snakes in the branches, pensive lemurs watch the shore with sad eyes), a red plane traces arabesques in a blue substance sky, a rattlesnake strikes, a cobra rears, spreads, spits white venom, pearl and opal chips fall in a slow silent rain through air clear as glycerine..."

(William S. Burroughs' a.j.'s annual party in Naked Lunch, 1959)