Allen Ginsberg

Last nite I dreamed of T
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Eliotwelcoming me to the land of
Sofas couches fog in

Elan that lifts me above the cloudsinto pure space, timeless, yea
Breath transmuted into words Transmuted back to breath in one hundred two hundred yearsnearly Immortal,
Sappho's 26 centuriesof cadenced breathing — beyond time, clocks, e...

Stand up against governments, against God
Stay irresponsible
Say only what we know & imagine
Absolutes are Coercion

Hey Father Death,
I'm flying
Hey poor man, you're all
Hey old daddy,

Holy
Holy
Holy
Holy

In the foreground we see time and lifeswept in a racetoward the left hand side of the picturewhere shore meets shore
But that meeting placeisn't represented;it doesn't occur on the canvas
For the other side of the bayis Heaven and Eterni...

Cool black night thru redwoodscars parked outside in shadebehind the gate, stars dim abovethe ravine, a fire burning by the sideporch and a few tired souls hunched overin black leather jackets
In the hugewooden house, a yellow chandelier at 3...

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarke...

Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below—Dr Leary in his brown house scribing Independence Declaration typewriter at window silver panor...

Tail turned to red sunset on a juniper crown a lone magpie cawks
Mad at Oryoki in the shrine-room — Thistles blossomed late afternoon
Put on my shirt and took it off in the sun walking the path to lunch
A dandelion seed floats above...

In nineteen hundred
China was won by Mao
Chiang Kai Shek's army ran
They were waiting there in Thailand

When I dieI don't care what happens to my bodythrow ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East Riverbury an urn in Elizabeth New Jersey,
B'nai Israel
But l want a big
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