That irritable reaching after fact and reason

– What does that poem mean?

– It means what it says.
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                                      & so Whalen, 1975,
a reading with Ginsberg at Naropa--

          "Quite often people are so busy trying to figure out
          why I'm saying it, that they don't pay attention to
          what it is I'm saying."