Some folks were reading the U.S. Constitution on the steps of the Graduate Library at noon today; I walked by and listened and wondered if the best way to read the Constitution aloud wouldn’t be to expel it like poetry, like Allen Ginsberg reading “Howl” — each line spoken in a single massive breath, clipped voice, empty lungs, rising to some wild respiratory crescendo:
done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names!
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