(audio posted below) Searching For Abraham Lincoln visited Springfield flew to Louisville drove Bardstown Road to St. Catharine College then on to The Starving Artist Cafe Welcome to Springfield, Kentucky wandered Main street side streets lost for hours small suitcase weighed down with heavy words The Emancipation Proclamation The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincolns words his works his life biography of his boyhood he was spiritual intuitive psychic that on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free and Im searching for Abraham Lincoln on Bardstown Road Beech Fork Lincoln Homestead Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Welcome to Springfield, Kentucky Abraham Lincoln country I walked Kentucky into the wind dark and bloody ground jewel in the lotus omphalos heart of the world holy triangle sacred Abbey of Gethsemani St. Catharines St. Josephs Trappist monks Dominican nuns coal mined bituminous gold nearly gone smokestacks power plants largest shovel in the world profane Native Americans pioneers farmers coal miners strong women poets writers musicians in Kentucky music is mountainous and Im searching for Abraham Lincoln the greatest President of them all he saved us from ourselves and here I am in Springfield heart of Kentucky Lincoln country who will save us now and Im searching for Abraham Lincoln maybe Edgar Cayce can help modern day prophet one of the great psychics of all time and from Hopkinsville, Kentucky maybe Muhammad Ali the Greatest from Louisville maybe Muhammad Ali can point the way with his International Peace Center float like a butterfly sting like a bee oh Muhammad oh Muhammad will you please help me cause Im searching for Abraham Lincoln and the rivers and creeks of Kentucky Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, Barren, Big Sandy, Rough, Elkhorn, Green spray us with tears of Mexican immigrants who for forty days and forty nights have stood in the fields outside Americas door knocking denied entry denied Churchill Downs The Derby singing My Old Kentucky Home knocking on our doors pleading let us come in let us live in your beautiful Kentucky Home and Im searching for Abraham Lincoln walking up hills mountains The Knobs The Appalachians Natural Bridge bowing to gravity leaning backward with my long hair sweeping the path as I descend the wind and the descent flatten me and now my muscles are green and yellow and red pain sustaining my search drink wine and strong coffee at The Starving Artist Cafe and Im searching for Abraham Lincoln I want love to have its way I want us to stand united not divided One world One people together in peace and harmony and searching for Abraham Lincoln I crawl through Kentucky so many diamonds I find birthed from the deep dark mines Iroquois Cherokee Shawnee Tribes Daniel Boone Henry Clay Abraham Lincoln Elizabeth Madox Roberts James Still Bill Monroe Loretta Lynn Muhammad Ali Hunter S. Thompson Johnny Depp Harry Dean Stanton Ned Beatty Adolf Rupp Rick Pitino Lionel Hampton Wendell Berry John Jacob Niles Pee Wee Reese The Everly Brothers Merle Travis Rosemary Clooney Edgar Cayce Robert Penn Warren the literary renaissance Thomas Merton Judy Morris Appalshop Bluegrass Bourbon Beautiful Women My Old Kentucky Home Churchill Downs Louisville Slugger The Great Outhouse Blowout Penns Store Gravel Switch Kentucky Fried Chicken Wildcats Cardinals and as I search for Abraham Lincoln I sit in The Starving Artist Cafe on a rainy October day drinking wine why do men still drink wine and women still water beautiful paintings cover the walls and yes when I give readings round the world I hear 3rd world voices monks and nuns Ernesto Cardenal Nicanor Parra Daniel Berrigan Thomas Merton Mother Teresa Judy Morris The Dalai Lama pierce the worlds terrors chanting singing praying for love for peace and Im searching for Abraham Lincoln the one wholl shake the ones unshaken the fearless one and searching for Abraham Lincoln in the St. Catharine College Library I look in Lawrence Ferlinghettis yes San Francisco Ferlinghetti who stood At Mertons grave with me I look in Ferlinghettis A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World and I read Christ climbed down from His bare tree this year and softly stole away into some anonymous Marys womb again where in the darkest night of everybodys anonymous soul He awaits again an unimaginable and impossibly Immaculate Reconception the very craziest of Second Comings. and Im standing in The Starving Artist Cafe on Main Street in Springfield, Kentucky the heart of Kentucky the heart of the world on this rainy Tuesday October 15, 2002 and the wind and the rain whisper welcome welcome welcome to Springfield and Im searching searching searching for Abe Honest Abe searching for Abraham Lincoln in Springield welcome to Springfield, Kentucky USA Ron Whitehead Copyright (c) 2002 & 2014 Ron Whitehead
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