Great quotes from Jimi Hendrix on this page, but this poem is my favorite. I had it mesmorized (and memorized) back in the day. I think it was on the inside over of Electric Ladyland…
Let’s see now…”It wasn’t too long ago, but it feels like years ago since I felt the warm hello of the sun…lately things…” And then he was interrupted by the slow motion speeded-up sound that sometimes cut so deep. That sound was from those cellophane typewriters - exactly, constantly from the south side of those carpets. And but anyway Sweet Rome was on my mind. “She gave so sweetly…” And on he walked until after crowning Ethel the Dog the Only Queen of Ears, the sky cracked wide open and split many of his brothers’ and sisters’ heads all over the world apart at approximately the same time… “That’s law and order,” said the Border Guard, as his hard head weighted something like wet bread - Which to explain through brain rain as that’s…well…Bro, is this here country all that much ahead?
And said the owner of the velvet horse who saw all this… “I just know that I’m gonna get involved here” and slqms the machine into reverse, splitting both suns apart in doing so probably. He got to Fantasy Fjords on the hurry up side and also can you dig… Oh Oh! watch that stick, and judge your distance from that blue seude kick !! (Swisshhh Knock…!?!!..) Anyway, can you dig that something came by here not too terrible long at all…I was bathing my eye…Just a thousand feet above those same old tired skies and…you know, that sound there and after that, everywhere, bathed me in a physical. And he blurted out the sound burnt the side of his inner wall also passing by, and the liquid rainbow melted EROS all through hios rooms and rooms of ears that he was hiding from Ethel the Queeny. And he thumbed a lift from his head and heads straight to anywhere to tell his woman, the world; that it was physical…GASP. And (the cellophane begins to crattle and crake) his old lady, Terra Mama, jumps in his face and says, “What’s physical?!” and he stutters, smiles, and retaliates with…well..