Yıl 1995… The United States of Poetry isimli 6 bölümlük mini dizi/belgesel, önemli amerikan şairlerini tanıtıyor. Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, gibi isimler idollerinin şiirlerini okuyor ve saygı duruşunda bulunuyorlar…
Johnny Depp ise büyük hayranlık beslediği Jack Kerouac’ın Chorus 113’ünü seçiyor… Müzik ve görüntülerle beslenen “okuma” tekrar tekrar izlenecek düzeyde…
Depp’in tamamını seslendirmediği şiirin tüm dizeleri ise şu şekilde:
Got up and dressed up
and went out & got laid
Then died and got buried
in a coffin in the grave,
Man–
Yet everything is perfect,
Because it is empty,
Because it is perfect
with emptiness,
Because it’s not even happening.
Everything
Is Ignorant of its own emptiness–
Anger
Doesn’t like to be reminded of fits–
You start with the Teaching
Inscrutable of the Diamond
And end with it, your goal
is your startingplace,
No race has run, no walk
of prophetic toenails
Across Arabies of hot
meaning–you just
numbly don’t get there
