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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: GINSBERG, ALLEN Matches Found: 541 Ginsberg, Allen Poet's Biography 541 poems available by this author 1/17/84 - 4:10 AM MONDAY First Line: Will they shoot me? Last Line: Not to display %were modesty %greater than nature %tempted today 1/18/84 N.Y.C. First Line: Up late sunday, late nite reading thru ny times Last Line: Floating down like dandelion seeds from grey sky %floating up and drifting west and east by the fire Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper) 221 SYLLABLES AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN DHARMA CENTER First Line: Headless husk legs wrapped round a glass spear, an old bee trembles in sunlight 4 AM BLUES First Line: Oh when you gonna lie down by my side Last Line: That's how I'm going to die A PROPHECY Poem Text Recitation First Line: O future bards / chant from skull to heart to ass Subject(s): United States; America A STRANGE NEW COTTAGE IN BERKELEY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All afternoon cutting bramble blackberries off a tottering brown fence Subject(s): Home; Berkeley, California A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets A VOW Poem Text First Line: I will haunt these states Subject(s): United States; War; America AFTER ANTIPATER First Line: I've climbed the great wall's stone steep out of breath AFTER LALON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It's true I got caught in Subject(s): Old Age AFTER LALON First Line: It's true I got caught in Last Line: Dont follow my path %to extinction Subject(s): Old Age AFTER OLAV H. HAUGE First Line: Some live on islands, hills near trondheim Last Line: His own two feet AFTER THE BIG PARADE First Line: Millions of people cheering and waving flags for joy in manhattan Last Line: Cause for the next rejoicing AFTER THE PARTY Poem Text First Line: Amid glasses clinking, mineral water, schnapps Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AFTER THE PARTY First Line: Amid glasses clinking, mineral water, schnapps Last Line: Coemergent wisdom Subject(s): Homosexuality AFTER THOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: When he kissed my nipple Subject(s): United States; America AFTER THOUGHTS First Line: When he kissed my nipple Last Line: Foolish magic most likely Subject(s): United States AFTER WHITMAN & REZNIKOFF: 1. WHAT RELIEF First Line: If my pen hand were snapped by a broadway truck Last Line: Adolescent farmboys opening book covers with ruddy hands AFTER WHITMAN & REZNIKOFF: 2. LOWER EAST SIDE First Line: That round faced woman, she owns the street with her three big dogs Last Line: Big jerk - you think you're famous? - reminds me of my mother AFTER YEATS First Line: Now incense fills the air Last Line: Statue painted gold, tea on the white table AFTERWORD First Line: Looking into the world Last Line: I converse with myself AH WAR First Line: Ah war bigness addiction Last Line: Theistic space AIRPLANE BLUES (WITH MUSIC) First Line: I drove out to the airport Last Line: In the lower east side %I'll go take my rest AMERICA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision; Fancy; America AMERICA First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing Last Line: America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision AMERICA AGAIN First Line: 6 %worlds population consumes 40 %world's raw materials Last Line: Do we maintain this comfort at expense of central america, mexico, peru, west africa AMERICAN CHANGE First Line: The first I looked on, after a long time far from home in mid atlantic Last Line: T-men to prevent counterfeit - %one AMERICAN SENTENCES (1987-1992) First Line: Four skinheads stand in the streetlight rain chatting under an umbrella Last Line: That grey-haired man in business suit and black turtleneck thinks he's %still young AMERICAN SENTENCES 1995-1997 First Line: I felt a breeze below my waist and realized that my fly was open Last Line: To see void vast infinite look out the window into the blue sky AN ASPHODEL Poem Text First Line: O dear sweet rosy Subject(s): Desire AN EASTERN BALLAD Poem Text First Line: I speak of love that comes to mind: Subject(s): Love AN OPEN WINDOW ON CHICAGO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Midwinter night, / clark & halstead brushed with this week's snow Subject(s): United States; America ANGER First Line: How'd I get angry? Analytic approach Last Line: As all the news that's fit to print ANTI VIETNAM-WAR PEACE MOBILIZATION Poem Text First Line: White sunshine on sweating skulls Subject(s): United States; America ANTI VIETNAM-WAR PEACE MOBILIZATION First Line: White sunshine on sweating skulls Last Line: From the paranoia smog factory's east wing Subject(s): United States ARCHETYPE POEM First Line: Joe blow has decided Last Line: Of communications are %universal ARGUMENTS First Line: I'm sick of arguments AT APOLLINAIRE'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: I visited pere lachaise to look for the remains of apollinaire Last Line: I am buried here and sit by my grave beneath a tree Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry & Poets; Surrealism AT APOLLINAIRE'S GRAVE First Line: I visited pere lachaise to look for the remains of apollinaire Last Line: I am buried here and sit by my grave beneath a tree Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry And Poets; Surrealism AT THE CAPRI Recitation by Author Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AUTO POESY: ON THE LAM FROM BLOOMINGTON First Line: Setting out east on rain bright highways Subject(s): United States; America AUTO POESY: ON THE LAM FROM BLOOMINGTON First Line: Setting out east on rain bright highways Last Line: Washington town covered with rust-hm Subject(s): United States AUTUMN AGAIN, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IN THE CITY Last Line: Red red oak, oh, what's your worry? Subject(s): Environment; Trees AUTUMN GOLD: NEW ENGLAND FALL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Coughing in the morning / waking with a steam beast, city destroyed Subject(s): United States; America AUTUMN GOLD: NEW ENGLAND FALL First Line: Coughing in the morning %waking with a steam beast, city destroyed Last Line: Silent tiny golden hills, maya-joy in autumn %speeding 70 m.P.H. Subject(s): United States AUTUMN LEAVES First Line: At 66 just learning how to take care of my body Last Line: To be a corpse AYERS ROCK/ULURU SONG First Line: When the red pond fills fish appear Last Line: When the raindrop dries, worlds come to their end BACK ON TIMES SQUARE, DREAMING OF TIMES SQUARE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Let some sad trumpeter stand Subject(s): Times Square, New York BACK ON TIMES SQUARE, DREAMING OF TIMES SQUARE' Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Let some sad trumpeter stand Subject(s): Times Square, New York BACK ON TIMES SQUARE, DREAMING OF TIMES SQUARE' First Line: Let some sad trumpeter stand Last Line: Legendary, as prophesied Subject(s): Times Square, New York BAD POEM First Line: Being as now has been re-invented Last Line: Which is now BALLAD OF THE SKELETONS First Line: Said the presidential skeleton Last Line: That's all goodnight BAYONNE ENTERING NYC Poem Text First Line: Smog trucks mile after mile high wire Subject(s): United States; America BAYONNE ENTERING NYC First Line: Smog trucks mile after mile high wire Last Line: Waiting I come back to new york & begin to sing Subject(s): United States BAYONNE TURNPIKE TO TUSCARORA Poem Text First Line: Grey water tanks in grey mist, / grey robot Subject(s): United States; America BAYONNE TURNPIKE TO TUSCARORA First Line: Grey water tanks in grey mist, %grey robot Last Line: Crash of machineguns, ring of locusts, airplane roar, %calliope yell, bzzzs Subject(s): United States BEGINNING OF A POEM OF THESE STATES Poem Text First Line: Under the bluffs of oroville, blue cloud september Subject(s): United States; America BEGINNING OF A POEM OF THESE STATES First Line: Under the bluffs of oroville, blue cloud september Last Line: Face and television, money and new wanderings to come Subject(s): United States BIG EATS First Line: Big deal bargains tv meat stock market news paper headlines love life Last Line: You look at the sky, sit on a pillow, count up the stars in your head, get up %and eat BIRDBRAIN First Line: Birdbrain runs the world Last Line: Birdbrain's afraid he's going to blow up the planet so he wrote this poem to %be immortal BIXBY CANYON Poem Text First Line: Path crowded with thistle fern blue daisy Subject(s): United States; America BIXBY CANYON First Line: Path crowded with thistle fern blue daisy Last Line: So pipers pray to the avalanche Subject(s): United States BIXBY CANYON OCEAN PATH WORD BREEZE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Tiny orange-wing tipped butterfly Last Line: So pipes pray to the avalanche Subject(s): United States; America BIXBY CANYON OCEAN PATH WORD BREEZE First Line: Tiny orange-wing tipped butterfly Last Line: Silver hair ear to ear Subject(s): United States BLACK SHROUD First Line: Kunming hotel, I vomited greasy chicken sandwiched BLUE ANGEL First Line: Marlene dietrich is singing a lament Last Line: But not till I have found a man %to occupy my mind Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Motion Pictures BOP LYRICS (1) First Line: When I think of death Last Line: Smart went crazy BOP LYRICS (2) First Line: A flower in my head Last Line: Smart went crazy BOP LYRICS (3) First Line: I asked the lady what's a rose Last Line: At least nobody's said BOP LYRICS (4) First Line: The time I went to china Last Line: And all I said was 'oops!' BOP LYRICS (5) First Line: All the doctors think I'm crazy Last Line: Till they put me in th' asylum BOP LYRICS (6) First Line: I'm a pot and god's a potter Last Line: I'm so lucky to be nutty BOP SH'BAM First Line: Oo bop sh'bam Last Line: Peek-a-boo-boo BOWEL SONG First Line: You've been coughing for weeks Last Line: These jokes won't be funny when everyone leaves the seven exits BRICKLAYER'S LUNCH HOUR First Line: Two bricklayers are setting the walls Last Line: Street comes through almost harshly BROKEN BONE BLUES First Line: Broken bone bone bone Last Line: & I'll come back & bless you again BROWN RICE QUATRAINS First Line: Those high luncheons needn't matter BUS RIDE BALLAD ROAD TO SUVA First Line: O ho for the bus that rolls down the dirt road Last Line: Down there the white houses of suva at last BUTTERFLY MIND First Line: The mind is like a butterfly Last Line: That settle on the page C'MON PIGS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION EAT MORE GREASE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Eat eat more marbled sirloin more pork'n gravy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men C'MON PIGS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION EAT MORE GREASE First Line: Eat eat more marbled sirloin more pork'n gravy Last Line: And this is a plate of black forest chocolate cake, %you deserve it Subject(s): Homosexuality CADILLAC SQUAWK First Line: Sitting on the twelfth floor gomden I heard a wild siren in the grament distric CAFE IN WARSAW First Line: These spectres resting on plastic stools Last Line: Or lean together laughing to notice this wild haired madman who sits %among you a stranger CALM PANIC CAMPAIGN PROMISE First Line: End of millennium %earth's decay Last Line: To restore nature's balance CAPITOL AIR First Line: I don't like the government where I live Last Line: Armed with humor feed & help enlighten woe mankind CAR CRASH Poem Text First Line: Snow-blizzard sowing Subject(s): United States; America CAR CRASH First Line: Snow-blizzard sowing Last Line: Mussed & ruffled by policeman's rape Subject(s): United States CHANCES R Poem Text First Line: Red glow on the tables Last Line: "wichita traversed with streetlight Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States CHANCES R First Line: Red glow on the tables Last Line: Wichita traversed with streetlight %on the plain Subject(s): Middle West CHANGE: KYOTO-TOKYO EXPRESS First Line: Black magicians %come home: the pink meat image Last Line: Making my body visible %thru my eyes! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision CHARNEL GROUND First Line: Upstairs jenny crashed her car & became a living corpse, jake sold grass, the w Last Line: With words: 'the whole point seems to be the idea of giving away the giver.' Subject(s): Aging; New York City CHICAGO TO SALT LAKE BY AIR Poem Text First Line: If hanson baldwin got a bullet in his brain, outrage? Subject(s): United States; America CHICAGO TO SALT LAKE BY AIR First Line: If hanson baldwin got a bullet in his brain, outrage? Last Line: Neal was born in paradise! Subject(s): United States CIA DOPE CALYPSO Poem Text First Line: In nineteen hundred forty-nine Subject(s): Central Intelligence Agency (cia) CIA DOPE CALYPSO First Line: In nineteen hundred forty-nine Last Line: Till colby was the head of the cia CITY LIGHTS CITY First Line: On via ferlinghetti & kerouac alley young heroes muse melancholy Last Line: & I'll take alcatraz (to return to native americans along with treasure %island) CITY MIDNIGHT JUNK STRAINS First Line: Switch on lights yellow as the sun Last Line: A common ear %for our deep gossip CLEVELAND, THE FLATS Poem Text First Line: Into the flats, thru cleveland's Subject(s): United States; America CLEVELAND, THE FLATS First Line: Into the flats, thru cleveland's Last Line: Tsani yea hum hum hum %phat phat phat svaha! Subject(s): United States COME ALL YE BRAVE BOYS Poem Text First Line: Come all you young men that proudly display Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men COME ALL YE BRAVE BOYS First Line: Come all you young men that proudly display Last Line: Let's come together, & tremble & beg Subject(s): Homosexuality COME BACK CHRISTMAS: BLUES STANZA First Line: Radiator cockroach Last Line: He better stay out in the hall COMPLAINT OF THE SKELETON TO TIME Poem Text First Line: Take my love, it is not true, Subject(s): Skeletons CONFESSION IS DREAM FOR THE SOUL First Line: Woke to pee, I was in bed bandaged Last Line: What didn't I know? Was the ordeal over CONTEST OF BARDS First Line: The youth the color of the hills laughed delighted at his vanity Last Line: His eyes fell down to the messenger's foot, toes spread firm on the runed lintel CONTINUATION OF A LONG POEM OF THESE STATES Poem Text First Line: Stage-lit streets / downtown frisco whizzing past, buildings Subject(s): United States; America CONTINUATION OF A LONG POEM OF THESE STATES First Line: Stage-lit streets %downtown frisco whizzing past, buildings Last Line: Orion's muzzle %raised up %to the center of heaven Subject(s): United States COSMOPOLITAN GREETINGS Poem Text First Line: Stand up against governments, against god Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 COSMOPOLITAN GREETINGS First Line: Stand up against governments, against god Last Line: Others can measure their vision by what we see. %candor ends paranoia Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CRAZY SPIRITUAL First Line: A faithful youth Last Line: I promise to drive you %home through america CROSSING NATION Poem Text First Line: Under silver wing Last Line: My body? My neck? My personality? Subject(s): United States; America CROSSING NATION First Line: Under silver wing Last Line: My body? My neck? My personality? Subject(s): United States DEATH & FAME First Line: When I die %I don't care what happens to my body Last Line: Who never knew exactly what was happening even when I was alive DEATH AND FAME Poem Text First Line: When I die Subject(s): Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation DEATH NEWS Poem Text First Line: Walking at night on asphalt campus Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Dead, The DEATH NEWS First Line: Walking at night on asphalt campus Last Line: What you wanted to be among the bastards out there Subject(s): Death; Poetry And Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) DEATH ON ALL FRONTS Poem Text First Line: A new moon looks down on our sick sweet planet Subject(s): United States; America DEATH ON ALL FRONTS First Line: A new moon looks down on our sick sweet planet Last Line: Left temple living death Subject(s): United States DEATH TO VAN GOGH'S EAR! First Line: Poet is priest %money has reckoned the soul of america DEFENDING THE FAITH First Line: Stopping on the bus from novi pazar in the rain Last Line: They showed me their teeth & barked a long long time DESCRIBE: THE RAIN ON DASASWAMEDH GHAT First Line: Kali ma tottering up steps to shelter tin roof, feeling her way Last Line: Just arrived in the holy city of benares DIAMOND BELLS First Line: Hearing the all pervading scintillation of empty bells I realize Last Line: Such is the all pervading scintillation of empty bells DO THE MEDITATION ROCK First Line: If you want to learn how to meditate Last Line: Learn a little patience & generosity DON'T GET ANGRY WITH ME Last Line: Tila, mila, marpa, naro DON'T GROW OLD Poem Text First Line: Old poet, poetry's final subject glimmers months ahead Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DON'T GROW OLD First Line: Old poet, poetry's final subject glimmers months ahead Last Line: Not be buried in the cemetery near newark airport some day? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets DONE, FINISHED WITH THE BIGGEST COCK Poem Text First Line: Done, finished, with the biggest cock you ever saw Subject(s): United States; America DONE, FINISHED WITH THE BIGGEST COCK First Line: Done, finished, with the biggest cock you ever saw Last Line: In chill breeze darkness under christmas moon Subject(s): United States DOPE FIEND BLUES First Line: Yes I'm a dope fiend, I dont believe your laws Last Line: They gonna legalise existence, everybody ride a big white horse DREAM First Line: There was a bulge in my right side, this dream recently-just now Last Line: A glow of happiness next morn, warm glow of pleasure half the %day DREAM RECORD: JUNE 8, 1955 First Line: A drunken night in my house with a %boy, san francisco Last Line: Of an unvisited garden in mexico EASTER SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: Slope woods' snows melt Subject(s): United States; America EASTER SUNDAY First Line: Slope woods' snows melt Last Line: Extended from the piney horizon Subject(s): United States EASTERN BALLAD First Line: I speak of love that comes to mind Last Line: I wake to see the world go wild ECOLOGUE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In a thousand years, if there's history Subject(s): United States; America ECOLOGUE First Line: In a thousand years, if there's history Last Line: How many bottles & cans piled up in our garbagepail? Subject(s): United States EGO CONFESSION First Line: I want to be known as the most brilliant man in america Last Line: Even climbed mountains to create his mountain, with ice ax %crampons & ropes, over glaciers ELEGY CHE GUEVARA Poem Text First Line: European trib, boy's face photo'd eyes opened Subject(s): United States; America ELEGY CHE GUEVARA First Line: European trib, boy's face photo'd eyes opened Last Line: Confronting the electric networks Subject(s): United States ELEGY FOR NEAL CASSADY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Ok neal / aethereal spirit Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); United States; America ELEGY FOR NEAL CASSADY First Line: Ok neal %aethereal spirit Last Line: Sir spirit, an' I drift alone: %oh deep sigh Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); United States ELEPHANT IN THE MEDITATION HALL First Line: Yes all the spiritual groups scandal the shrine room Last Line: Anyway, the national debt'll approach 4 trillion any day say the homeless %on tompkins square EMPIRE AIR (FLYING TO ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) First Line: Rising above the used car lots & colored dumps of long island END First Line: I am I, old father fisheye that begat the ocean, the worm at my own ear Last Line: Come poet shut up eat my word, and taste my mouth in your ear EUROPE! EUROPE! Recitation by Author EUROPE, WHO KNOWS First Line: All over europe people are saying, 'who knows?' Last Line: If we didn't eat poison we'd starve, brother, everyone knows EVERYBODY SING First Line: Everybody's just a little %bit homo sexual Last Line: And ease your tender misery EVERYDAY First Line: The lama sat Last Line: On the sunny %windowsill EXCREMENT First Line: Everybody excretes different loads Last Line: Polyhymnia the muse herself, lowered to this throne %what a relief! Subject(s): Homosexuality EYE ALTERING ALTERS ALL First Line: Many seek and never see Last Line: This is a great mystery FAKE SAINT Recitation by Author Subject(s): Saints FALLING ASLEEP IN AMERICA Poem Text Recitation First Line: We're in the great place, fable place, beulah, man wedded Subject(s): United States; America FALLING ASLEEP IN AMERICA First Line: We're in the great place, fable place, beulah, man wedded Last Line: Only the eye flickering grass green returns me to nashville Subject(s): United States FEEDING THEM RASPBERRIES TO GROW Recitation FELLOW NAMED STEVEN Last Line: His child & wife FIFTH INTERNATIONALE First Line: Arise ye prisoners of your mind-set Last Line: Could save the human race FIGHTING PHANTOMS FIGHTING PHANTOMS First Line: Fighting phantoms we have car wrecks on hollywood freeway FIGHTING SOCIETY First Line: Noses %gargoyles %broken-jawed boxers Last Line: Society take on the whole fighting society shooting match? FINALLY Recitation by Author FIRST PARTY AT KEN KESEY'S WITH HELL'S ANGELS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Cool black night thru the redwoods Subject(s): Motorcycles & Motorcycling FIRST PARTY AT KEN KESEY'S WITH HELL'S ANGELS First Line: Cool black night thru the redwoods Last Line: Gate, red lights revolving in the leaves Subject(s): Motorcycles And Motorcycling FIVE A.M. First Line: Elan that lifts me above the clouds Last Line: Where does it come from, where does it go forever? FLASH BACK Poem Text First Line: In a car grey smoke over elmira Subject(s): United States; America FLASH BACK First Line: In a car grey smoke over elmira Last Line: O women shut up, yelling for baby meat more Subject(s): United States FOOTNOTE TO HOWL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! FOOTNOTE TO HOWL First Line: Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy Last Line: Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul FOURTH FLOOR, DAWN, UP ALL NIGHT WRITING LETTERS First Line: Pigeons shake their wings on the copper roof FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH First Line: Blasts rip newspaper grey manahatta's mid day air spires Last Line: Down thru cloud-floor to chicago, sunset fire obliterate in %black gas Subject(s): United States FUN HOUSE ANTIQUE STORE First Line: I'd been motoring through states & Last Line: & delight -- & so we left to go, our party %on its way to the postmodern capital FYODOR First Line: The death's head of realism Last Line: I had as a child G.S. READING POESY AT PRINCETON Poem Text First Line: Gold beard combd down like chinese fire - gold hair braid Subject(s): Princeton University; Snyder, Gary (b. 1930); United States; America G.S. READING POESY AT PRINCETON First Line: Gold beard combd down like chinese fire - gold hair braid Last Line: Gary's voice echoing hollow under electric lamps Subject(s): Princeton University; Snyder, Gary (b. 1930); United States GALILEE SHORE Poem Text First Line: With the blue-dark dome old-starred at night, green boat-lights Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology GALILEE SHORE First Line: With the blue-dark dome old-starred at night, green boat-lights Last Line: Just think how amazing! Someone getting up and walking on the water Subject(s): Bible; Religion GARDEN STATE First Line: It used to be, farms Last Line: Go back sundays & sing old springtime music %on greystone state mental hospital lawn GET IT? First Line: Get beat up on tv squirming on the ground for driving irregular Last Line: Several billion dollars get sent to jail GOD First Line: The 18 year old marine had made his peace with god Last Line: God? God? Everybody's god? Don't be silly GOING TO CHICAGO Poem Text First Line: 22,000 feet over hazed square vegetable planet floor Last Line: By man poet's eyes astounded in the fire haze, / carbon gas aghast Subject(s): United States; Air Travel; America GOING TO CHICAGO First Line: 22,000 feet over hazed square vegetable planet floor Last Line: Scream in despair over meat and metal microphone Subject(s): United States GOING TO THE WORLD OF THE DEAD (WITH MUSIC) GONE GONE GONE First Line: Yes it's gone gone gone Last Line: Gone gone away GOOD LUCK First Line: I'm lucky to have all five fingers on the right hand Last Line: Lucky I can think, and sky can snow GOSPEL NOBLE TRUTHS First Line: Born in this world Last Line: Die when you die GRAFFITI 12TH CUBICLE MEN'S ROOM SYRACUSE AIRPORT Poem Text First Line: I am married and would like to fuck someone else Subject(s): United States; America GRAFFITI 12TH CUBICLE MEN'S ROOM SYRACUSE AIRPORT First Line: I am married and would like to fuck someone else Last Line: Way to really get your head together by first getting %it apart lsd forever Subject(s): United States GRANDMA EARTH'S SONG First Line: I started down capitol hill side along unfamiliar black central avenues Last Line: Anything comes to mind's the right politics to ruin police state GRANT PARK: AUGUST 28, 1968 Poem Text First Line: Green air, children sat under trees with the old Subject(s): United States; America GRANT PARK: AUGUST 28, 1968 First Line: Green air, children sat under trees with the old Last Line: Who wants to be president of the %garden of eden? Subject(s): United States GRAPHIC WINCES First Line: In highschool when you crack your front tooth bending down too fast Last Line: Or you may wince, tingling twixt sphincter and scrotum a subtle electric %discharge GREEN AUTOMOBILE First Line: If I had a green automobile Last Line: I'll return to new york Subject(s): Automobiles; Denver, Colorado GREEN VALENTINE First Line: I went in the forest to look for a sign Last Line: Regret, o regret, my green valentine GUEST First Line: I've a pain in my back GURU First Line: It is the moon that disappears Last Line: It is the call of a bell GURU BLUES First Line: I cant find anyone to show me what to do Last Line: Yeah I cant find anyone, %only you guru GURU OM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: October 4, 1970 / car wheels roar over freeway concrete Last Line: I am leaving the world, I will close my eyes and rest my tongue & hand Subject(s): United States; America GURU OM First Line: October 4, 1970 %car wheels roar over freeway concrete Last Line: Chest dark baby kingdom in the skull Subject(s): United States HALF ASLEEP First Line: Moved six months ago left it behind for peter Last Line: Where I'd let go half year before HAPPENING NOW? END OF EARTH? APOCALYPSE DAYS? HAPPY NEW YEAR ROBERT & JUNE Last Line: In any case let me know when HARD LABOR First Line: After midnite, second avenue horseradish beef Last Line: Restaurant after a hard day's work HARDON BLUES First Line: Blues is like a hardon comes right in your mouth Last Line: If I dont get it off right now, someday it'll all be gone HAUNTING POE'S BALTIMORE Poem Text First Line: Baltimore bones groan maliciously under sidewalk Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) HAUNTING POE'S BALTIMORE First Line: Baltimore bones groan maliciously under sidewalk Last Line: I havde writ this ancient riddle in poe's house in baltimore Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE?' Recitation by Author First Line: Old maple hairytrunks root asphalt grass marge, november Subject(s): United States; America HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE?' First Line: Old maple hairytrunks root asphalt grass marge, november Last Line: Lights on cars front western lane grey twilight falls on %rolling robotland Subject(s): United States HAVE YOU SEEN THS MOVIE? Recitation by Author HEPATITIS BODY ITCH First Line: Hepatitis Last Line: This corpse %cancer HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH First Line: I got old & shit in my pants Last Line: & shit in my pants again HIWAY POESY L.A. TO WICHITA Poem Text First Line: Up up and away! / we're off, thru america Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); America HIWAY POESY L.A. TO WICHITA First Line: Up up and away! %we're off, thru america Last Line: Green signs, %welcome to wichita %population 280,000 Subject(s): United States HOMAGE VAJRACARYA First Line: Now that samurai bow & sorrow, sumi brush, teacup HOMELESS COMPLEYNT Poem Text First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag Subject(s): Homeless; Insects; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Bugs HOMELESS COMPLEYNT First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag Subject(s): Homeless; Insects HOMEWORK First Line: If I were doing my laundry I'd wash my dirty iran HOSPITAL WINDOW Poem Text First Line: At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke Subject(s): Hospitals; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HOW COME HE GOT CANNED AT THE RIBBON FACTORY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There was this character come in Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers HOWL; FOR CARL SOLOMON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Imagination; Vision; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Fancy HOWL; FOR CARL SOLOMON First Line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness Last Line: Across america in tears to the door of my cottage in the western night Subject(s): Homosexuality; Imagination; Vision HUM BOM! Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Whom bomb? / we bomb them! Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; America HUM BOM! First Line: Whom bomb? %we bomb them! Last Line: Whom bomb? %you bomb you! Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States HYMMNN First Line: In the world which he has created according to his will blessed praised Last Line: Be he! Blessed be he! Blessed be death on us all! I AM A VICTIM OF TELEPHONE First Line: When I lie down to sleep dream the wishing well it rings I AM NOT First Line: I'm not a lesbian screaming in the basement strapped to a leather spiderweb I LOVE OLD WHITMAN SO First Line: Youthful, caressing, boisterous, tender Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I LOVE OLD WHITMAN SO First Line: Youthful, caressing, boisterous, tender Last Line: After green seasons civil war and years of snow %white hair Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I WENT TO THE MOVIE OF LIFE First Line: In the mud, in the night, in mississippi delta roads Last Line: The windows on e. 12th st. In my white painted room I'M A PRISONER OF ALLEN GINSBERG First Line: Who is this slave master makes %me answer letters in his name IGNU Recitation by Author IGNU First Line: On top of that if you know mei pronounce you an ignu IMAGINARY UNIVERSES Poem Text First Line: Under orders to shoot the spy, I discharged Subject(s): United States; America IMAGINARY UNIVERSES First Line: Under orders to shoot the spy, I discharged Last Line: That was true, yes Subject(s): United States IMITATION OF K.S. First Line: The young kid, horror buff, monster commissar, ghoul connoisseur Last Line: Even jaw, shining eyes, 'I love you too.' IN A MOONLIT HERMIT'S CABIN First Line: Watching the white image, electric moon, white mist drift Last Line: Setting up the flag! Subject(s): United States IN BACK OF THE REAL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Railroad yard in san jose Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress IN BACK OF THE REAL First Line: Railroad yard in san jose Last Line: This is the flower of the world Subject(s): Depression, Mental IN DEATH, CANNOT REACH WHAT IS MOST NEAR First Line: We know all about death that Last Line: At it out of the grave IN MY KITCHEN IN NEW YORK First Line: Bend knees, shift weight IN SOCIETY First Line: I walked into the cocktail party Last Line: Last, dominating the whole room IN THE BAGGAGE ROOM AT GREYHOUND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the depths of the greyhound terminal Subject(s): Bus Terminals IN THE BAGGAGE ROOM AT GREYHOUND First Line: In the depths of the greyhound terminal Last Line: Hurt my knee and scraped my hand and built my pectoral muscles nig as a vagina Subject(s): Bus Terminals IN THE BENJO First Line: Reading no nature in the toilet Last Line: Better than hemorrhoids, a good volume %of poetry INDEPENDENCE DAY First Line: Orange hawkeye stronger than thought winking above a Last Line: Independence day! The cow's deep moo's an aum! Subject(s): United States INDUSTRIAL WAVES First Line: The new right's a creepy pre-fascist fad IRON HORSE First Line: And ninety-nine soldiers piled on the train at amarillo Last Line: Taxi-honk toward east river where %peter waits working IRRITABLE VEGETABLE First Line: Don't send me letters. Don't send me poems IS ABOUT Poem Text First Line: Dylan is about the individual against the whole creation Subject(s): Nagasaki, Japan IS ABOUT First Line: Dylan is about the individual against the whole of creation Last Line: Or are you a human being with 10 fingers & two eyes? IT'S ALL SO BRIEF First Line: I've got to give up %books, checks, letters Ï„Î?θνάκην δ€™ ολίγω €™Ï€Î¹Î´Î?Ï?ης φαίνομ€™ αλαία Poem Text First Line: Red cheeked boyfriends tenderly kiss me sweet mouthed Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men JACKING OFF First Line: Who showed up? Last Line: Eager-bound to be true JAWEH AND ALLAH BATTLE Poem Text First Line: Jaweh with atom bomb Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism JIMMY BERMAN RAG First Line: Whozat jimmie berman Last Line: We've abolished hell JOHN First Line: No one liked my hair Last Line: Do it in the form of poetry JOURNALS NOV. 22, 1963 First Line: The black & white glare in the inky air force night Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) JOURNALS NOV. 22, 1963 First Line: The black & white glare in the inky air force night Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) JUMPING THE GUN ON THE SUN First Line: Sincerity %is the key to living in eternity JUST SAY YES CALYPSO First Line: When schwarzkopf's father busted iran's mossadegh Last Line: Just say yes or they'll call you a fag KADDISH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk Subject(s): Desire; Mourning; Sex; Bereavement KADDISH First Line: Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk Last Line: Last chance of mine and naomi - to god's perfect darkness - %death, stay thy phantoms! Subject(s): Desire; Mourning; Sex KANSAS CITY TO SAINT LOUIS Poem Text First Line: Leaving k.C. Mo. Past independence past liberty Subject(s): United States; America KANSAS CITY TO SAINT LOUIS First Line: Leaving k.C. Mo. Past independence past liberty Last Line: Highway spanning highway, %bridged from suburb to suburb Subject(s): United States KEROUAC First Line: I can't answer Last Line: Vat's the qvestion? KISS ASS Poem Text First Line: Kissass is the part of peace Subject(s): United States; America KISS ASS First Line: Kissass is the part of peace Last Line: Only pathway to peace, kissass Subject(s): United States KRAL MAJALES Poem Text First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism KRAL MAJALES First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses Last Line: Thus I have written this poem on a jet seat in mid heaven Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism LAST NIGHT IN CALCUTTA First Line: Still night. The old clock ticks LAUGHING GAS: PART ! Recitation by Author Subject(s): Dentists LAY DOWN YR MOUNTAIN First Line: Lay down lay down yr mountain lay down god Last Line: Lay down yr empty suffering lay down yr lion's roar LION FOR REAL First Line: I came home and found a lion in my living room Last Line: Your starved and ancient presence o lord I wait in my room at your mercy Subject(s): Animals; Homosexuality; Lions LITTLE FISH DEVOURS THE BIG FISH First Line: When the troops Subject(s): Social Problems LITTLE FISH DEVOURS THE BIG FISH (WITH MUSIC) First Line: When the troops %get their poop LONDON DREAM DOORS First Line: On london's tavern's wooden table, been reading kit smart Last Line: Last night with bengali marathi urdu poets, museum of modern art LOVE COMES First Line: I lay down to rest LOVE FORGIVEN First Line: Straight and slender Last Line: Gives love to cold clay LOVE POEM ON A THEME BY WHITMAN Recitation by Author Subject(s): Love; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LOVE POEM ON THEME BY WHITMAN First Line: I'll go into the bedroom silently and lie down between the bride Last Line: Nude ghosts seeking each other out in the silence LOVE REPLIED First Line: Love came up to me Last Line: All the love I can give LUNCHTIME First Line: Birds chirp in the brick backyard radio Last Line: Senior citizen ready for next week's angiogram MAD GLEAM First Line: Go back to egypt and the greeks Last Line: Follow the flower to the ground MAGIC PSALM First Line: Because this world is on the wing and what cometh no man can know Last Line: Universe make meat reply MAKE NO IMAGE First Line: Mohammedans say Last Line: Peter waits working MALEST CORNIFICI TUO CATULLO Poem Text First Line: I'm happy, kerouac, your madman's allen Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MALEST CORNIFICI TUO CATULLO First Line: I'm happy, kerouac, your madman's allen Last Line: When they have eyes for me it's like heaven Subject(s): Homosexuality; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) MANHATTAN MAY DAY MIDNIGHT First Line: I walked out on the lamp shadowed concrete at midnight may day passing Last Line: In the same night six thousand years old where cities rise & fall & turn to dream MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH Poem Text First Line: Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine crash cookie-cutting Subject(s): New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH First Line: Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine crash cookie-cutting Last Line: Con edison skyscraper clock-head gleaming gold-lit at sun dusk Subject(s): New York City; United States MANY LOVES Poem Text First Line: Neal cassady was my animal: he brought me to my knees Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968) MANY LOVES First Line: Neal cassady was my animal: he brought me to my knees Last Line: And I lie here naked in the dark, dreaming Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968) MARIJUANA NOTATION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: How sick I am Subject(s): Substance Abuse; Addictive Behavior MATURITY First Line: Young I drank beer & vomited green bile Last Line: Now I vomit air MAY DAYS 1988 First Line: As I cross my kitchen floor the thought of death returns Last Line: Top to arctic ocean bottom MAYBE LOVE Poem Text First Line: Maybe love will come Last Line: To wet the silken dust Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MAYBE LOVE First Line: Maybe love will come Last Line: Love's death, & body's end Subject(s): Homosexuality MEMORY COUSINS First Line: After long absence, I returned from the land of the dead MEMORY GARDENS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Covered with yellow leaves / in morning rain Subject(s): United States; America MEMORY GARDENS First Line: Covered with yellow leaves %in morning rain Last Line: Everything else, drunken %dumbshow Subject(s): United States MESCALINE Poem Text First Line: Rotting ginsberg, I stared in the mirror naked today Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) MESCALINE First Line: Rotting ginsberg, I stared in the mirror naked today Last Line: No point writing when the spirit doth not lead Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) MESSAGE First Line: Since we had changed METAPHYSICS First Line: This is the one and only Last Line: Are the ways of heaven MILAREPA TASTE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Who am I? Saliva Subject(s): United States; America MILAREPA TASTE First Line: Who am I? Saliva Last Line: Light as ashes Subject(s): United States MIND BREATHS First Line: Thus crosslegged on round pillow sat in teton space Last Line: A calm breath, a silent breath, a slow breath breathes outward from the nostrils MISTAKEN INTRODUCTIONS First Line: Or this marvelous hi lama followed Last Line: We had a fire in the elevator MORAL MAJORITY First Line: Something evil about you mr. Viguerie mr. Falwell robertson swaggert MUGGING Poem Text First Line: Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on east tenth street's dusk Subject(s): Crime & Criminals MUGGING First Line: Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on east tenth street's dusk Subject(s): Crime And Criminals MULTIPLE IDENTITY QUESTIONNAIRE Poem Text First Line: I'm a jew? A nice jewish boy? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jews; Buddhism; Self; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MULTIPLE IDENTITY QUESTIONNAIRE First Line: I'm a jew? A nice jewish boy? Last Line: Mr. Sentient being! Absolutely empty neti neti identity, maya nobodaddy, %relative phantom nonentity Subject(s): Homosexuality MY ALBA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Now that I've wasted Subject(s): Discontent; Dissatisfaction MY ALBA First Line: Now that I've wasted %five years in manhattan Last Line: I am damned to hell what %alarmclock is ringing MY SAD SELF Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sometimes when my eyes are red Subject(s): New York City; Self; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MY SAD SELF First Line: Sometimes when my eyes are red Last Line: In the mind to come %where all manhattan that I've seen must disappear Subject(s): New York City; Self MY TEAM IS RED HOT First Line: My dick is red hot Last Line: Your cosmos diddly iddly squat N.S.A. DOPE CALYPSO First Line: Now richard secord and oliver north Last Line: In 2000 a.D. Read the new york times NAGASAKI DAYS Poem Text First Line: I walked outside & the bomb'd NAGASAKI DAYS: EVERYBODY'S FANTASY First Line: I walked outside & the bomb'd Last Line: Hundreds of miles on both sides %of the river NAMES First Line: Time comes spirit weakens and goes blank apartments shuffled through Last Line: Tenderness--to recognize you I the middle of time NANAO First Line: Brain washed by numerous mountain streams Last Line: Nanao's hands are steady, pen & ax sharp as stars NAZI CAPISH First Line: Catholicism capish Last Line: Fascisti capish NEW DEMOCRACY WISH LIST First Line: Retro axions: %'progress' ended in xx century Last Line: Off our backs by the next millennium. %january 17, 1993 NEW STANZAS FOR AMAZING GRACE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste NEW STANZAS FOR AMAZING GRACE First Line: I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place Last Line: And passed with eyes of stone NEW YORK BLUES First Line: I live in an apartment, sink leaks thru the walls Last Line: Cops kill all the bedbugs speed freaks land on mars NEWS STAYS NEWS First Line: Diana & roger napoleon's real estate empire Last Line: Asked napoleon in bed, eyes closing for the last time on st.Helena NEWT GINGRICH DECLARES WAR ON MCGOVERNIK COUNTERCULTURE First Line: Does that mean war on every boy with more than one earring on the Last Line: Long hair, relativity, is einstein countercultural? NIGHT GLEAM Poem Text First Line: Over and over thru the dull material world the call is made Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NIGHT GLEAM First Line: Over and over thru the dull material world the call is made Last Line: Over & over thru the dull material world the call is made Subject(s): Homosexuality NO! NO! IT'S NOT THE END First Line: No! No! %not the end of Last Line: Just gas & cremation NORTHWEST PASSAGE First Line: Incense under horse heaven hills Last Line: Next to everybody's bank Subject(s): United States NOT DEAD YET First Line: Huffing puffing upstairs downstairs telephone Last Line: York times addict, be glad you're not trotsky NOTHING PERSONAL Recitation by Author NOW AND FOREVER First Line: I'll settle for immortality Last Line: Old women sigh %youth still come NUMBERS IN U.S. FILE CABINET (DEATH WAITS TO BE EXECUTED) First Line: 100,000,000 buffalo 17th century on north american plains Last Line: 1 non-god %1 down 2 to go NY YOUTH CALL ANNUNCIATION First Line: Come all you jewish boy friends Last Line: Come all ye puerto rican cats %exiled from tropic sun OBJECTIVE SUBJECT First Line: It's true I write about myself Last Line: Teachers skimmed books or visited a museum ODE TO FAILURE First Line: Many prophets have failed, their voices silent OLD LOVE STORY First Line: Some think the love of boys is wicked in the world, forlorn OLD POND First Line: The old pond--a frog jumps in, kerplunk ON BURROUGHS' WORK Poem Text First Line: The method must be purest meat Subject(s): Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997) ON BURROUGHS' WORK First Line: The method must be purest meat Last Line: Don't hide the madness Subject(s): Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997) ON CREMATION OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, VIDYADHARA First Line: I noticed the grass, I noticed the hills, I noticed the highways Last Line: I noticed the sea, I noticed the music, I wanted to dance ON HIS FATHER'S DEATH Recitation by Author Subject(s): Death - Fathers ON NEAL'S ASHES Poem Text First Line: Delicate eyes that blinked blue rockies all ash Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); United States; America ON NEAL'S ASHES First Line: Delicate eyes that blinked blue rockies all ash Last Line: All ashes, all ashes again Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); United States ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WORLD SEEKING BEAUTY AGAINST GOVT First Line: Is that the only way we can become like indians, like rhinoceri Last Line: On the conduct of the world seeking beauty against government ONE MORNING I TOOK A WALK IN CHINA First Line: Students danced with wooden silvered swords, twirling on hard packed muddy eart OPEN WINDOW ON CHICAGO First Line: Midwinter night, %clark & halstead brushed with this week's snow Last Line: In windy metropolis %waiting for a bomb Subject(s): United States OVER DENVER AGAIN First Line: Grey clouds blot sunglare, mountains float west, plane Last Line: & insects hop back and forth between metallic cities Subject(s): United States OVER LARAMIE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Western air boat bouncing Subject(s): United States; America OVER LARAMIE First Line: Western air boat bouncing Last Line: The red plateau %into the new world Subject(s): United States PAST SILVER DURANGO OVER MEXIC SIERRA WRINKLES Poem Text First Line: Westward mother-mountains drift pacific, green sloped Subject(s): United States; America PAST SILVER DURANGO OVER MEXIC SIERRA WRINKLES First Line: Westward mother-mountains drift pacific, green sloped Last Line: From sky in sunlight, rocking back & forth in polluted %fields of air Subject(s): United States PASTEL SENTENCES, SELS. First Line: Mice ate the big red heart in her breast, she was distracted in Last Line: She flies down thousands of stone steps for years, aged climbs them %all back up PATERSON Poem Text First Line: What do I want in these rooms papered with visions of money Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON First Line: What do I want in these rooms papered with visions of money Last Line: By the bayoux and forests and derricks leaving my flesh and my bones %hanging on the trees Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATNA-BENARES EXPRESS First Line: Whatever it may be whoever it may be Last Line: Too many bodies thronging these cities now PEACE IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA First Line: General mother teresa Last Line: Of the man in the room at the end of may? PENTAGON EXORCISM Poem Text First Line: Who represents my body in pentagon? Who spends Subject(s): Military-industrial Complex; Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia PENTAGON EXORCISM First Line: Who represents my body in pentagon? Who spends Last Line: Eraction to signal peking, isolate space-beings! Subject(s): Military-industrial Complex; Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia PERSONALS AD First Line: Poet professor in autumn years Last Line: Can get excited & lay his head on your heart in peace PERTUSSIN Poem Text First Line: Always ether comes Subject(s): United States; America PERTUSSIN First Line: Always ether comes Last Line: Aftertaste, midnight nostalgia Subject(s): United States PINSK AFTER DARK First Line: Reborn a rabbi in pinsk, reincarnated backward time Last Line: Paid me no heed, not remembering their futures—verlaine & rimbaud. Subject(s): Pinsk, Belarus; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas PLEASE MASTER Poem Text First Line: Please master can I touch your cheek Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; United States; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; America PLEASE MASTER First Line: Please master can I touch your cheek Last Line: Over & over, bamming it in while I cry out your name I do love you %please master Subject(s): Homosexuality; United States PLUTONIAN ODE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What new element before us unborn in nature? Last Line: Space, so ah! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb POEM IN THE FORM OF A SNAKE THAT BITES ITS TAIL First Line: Oleta (snake) river! Last Line: Locally the seminoles may %be the gurus POEM ROCKET Recitation by Author Subject(s): Science; Religion; Scientists; Theology POPULAR TUNES First Line: What do I hear in my ear Last Line: Lied des concentrationslagers PORCH SCRIBBLES (1) First Line: Balmy, hotter outside than in the living room PORCH SCRIBBLES (2) First Line: That tree stands higher than a house PORCH SCRIBBLES (3) First Line: Did the ecologist chop his girl with an ax in philadelphia POWER First Line: The n power, the feminine power Last Line: Last week's swarthy crack pushers PRAYER BLUES First Line: When you break your leg %there's nothing to stand on Last Line: I submit to your name PREFACE: IMPROVISATION IN BEIJING First Line: I write poetry because the english word inspiration comes from latin Last Line: I write poetry because it's the best way to say everything in mind within %6 minutes or a lifetime PROCLAMATION First Line: I am the king of the universe Last Line: In any case you an believe every word %I say PROLOGUE: VISITING FATHER & FRIENDS First Line: I climbed the hillside to the lady's house Last Line: Far round the world away from louis' grave in jersey PROPHECY First Line: O future bards %chant from skull to heart to ass Last Line: Where rockets rise %to take me home Subject(s): United States PROPHECY First Line: As I'm no longer young in life PSALM 3 First Line: Now I'll record my secret vision PSALM IV First Line: Now I'll record my secret vision, impossible sight of the face of god Last Line: My son! My son! My father wept and held me in his dead arms PSALM: 3 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To god: to illuminate all men. Beginning with skid road Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PSALM: 3 First Line: To god: to illuminate all men. Beginning with skid road Last Line: I feed on your name like a cockroach on a crumb - this cockroach is Subject(s): Bible; Religion PUBLIC POETRY First Line: The fact is, the russians are sissies PUNK ROCK YOUR MY BIG CRYBABY First Line: I'll tel my deaf mother on you! Fall on the floor Last Line: Punk president, eat up the fbi w/yr big mouth PUT DOWN YOUR CIGARETTE RAG (DONT SMOKE) First Line: Dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke Last Line: Dope dope dope dope don't smoke RAIN-WET ASPHALT HEAT, GARBAGE CURBED CANS OVERFLOWING Poem Text First Line: I hauled down lifeless mattresses to sidewalk refuse-piles Subject(s): United States; America RAIN-WET ASPHALT HEAT, GARBAGE CURBED CANS OVERFLOWING First Line: I hauled down lifeless mattresses to sidewalk refuse-piles Last Line: And sudden farewell to the bedbug-ridden mattresses piled soggy in dark rain Subject(s): United States READING BAI JUYI First Line: I'm a traveler in a strange country READING BAI JUYI: 8. TRANSFORMATION OF 'A NIGHT IN XINGYANG' First Line: I grew up in patterson new jersey and was %just a virginal kid when I left Last Line: Noisy with mist then quietly along the brick factory sides %as they did before RED CHEEKED BOYFRIENDS TENDERLY KISS ME SWEET MOUTHED Last Line: Tender dying waited for sun rise years ago in manhattan REDS Poem Text First Line: There isn't much to say to marxists in nicaragua witth .45s Last Line: Peter orlovsky laughed. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema REEF MANTRA First Line: Blue starfish Last Line: Coral tide REFLECTIONS IN SLEEPY EYE First Line: 3,489 friendly people Last Line: White eye, door mouth Subject(s): United States RESEARCH First Line: Research has shown that black people have inferiority complexes Last Line: To conclude research has shown that the material universe does not %exist RETURN OF KRAL MAJALES First Line: This silver anniversary much hair's gone from my head and I am Last Line: All gone all gone all overgone now all gone sky-high old mind so ah RETURNING NORTH OF VORTEX First Line: Red guards battling country workers Last Line: Returning down black superhighways to denver Subject(s): United States RETURNING TO THE COUNTRY FOR A BRIEF VISIT First Line: Reading sung poems, I think of my poems to neal Last Line: When all these millions of people die, will they recognize the great %father REVERSE THE RAIN OF TERROR First Line: Reverse the rain of terror on street consciousness usa Last Line: Rocky flats engineers tear their hair, plutonium waste'll outlast an %otherwordly god RICHARD III First Line: Toenail-thickening ago on me Last Line: Reading shakespeare RISING OVER NIGHT-BLACKENED DETROIT STREETS Poem Text First Line: Brilliant network-lights tentacle dim suburbs Last Line: "sweating & weeping ignorant on your own plastic-pain Subject(s): Detroit, Michiigan RISING OVER NIGHT-BLACKENED DETROIT STREETS First Line: Brilliant network-lights tentacle dim suburbs Last Line: Sweating & weeping ignorant on your own plastic-pain maya planet Subject(s): United States ROCK SONG Poem Text First Line: I'm up in the lightning tower ROCK SONG First Line: I'm up in the lightning tower Last Line: Lightning consciousness in the crowd RUHR-GEBIET First Line: Too much alimony Last Line: To bury the devil RUNE First Line: Where the years have gone, where the clouds have flown Last Line: Shining thru railroad windows on new-revealed faces, our own inner forms SAD DUST GLORIES First Line: Teacher %bring me to heaven Last Line: It's the wind talking SALUTATIONS TO FERNANDO PESSOA Poem Text First Line: Every time I read pessoa I think Subject(s): Pessoa, Fernando (1888-1935); Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SALUTATIONS TO FERNANDO PESSOA First Line: Every time I read pessoa I think Last Line: Diarrhea mouth some people say -- pessoa schmessoa Subject(s): Pessoa, Fernando (1888-1935); Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SATHER GATE IMAGINATION First Line: Why do I deny manna to another? SCATALOGICAL OBSERVATIONS First Line: Young romantic readers Last Line: Inexhaustible shit machine SENDING MESSAGE First Line: They are sending a message to the youth of america Last Line: & networks send me messages shut the fuck up SEPTEMBER ON JESSORE ROAD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Millions of babies watching the skies Subject(s): United States; America SEPTEMBER ON JESSORE ROAD First Line: Millions of babies watching the skies Last Line: Millions of children nowhere to go Subject(s): United States SEXUAL ABUSE First Line: A voice in the kitchen light Last Line: Over sherry at intimate dinner SHROUDED STRANGER First Line: Bare skin is my wrinkled sack SICKNESS BLUES First Line: Lord lord I got the sickness blues, I must've done something wrong Last Line: I got the sickness blues, you'll miss me when I'm gone SIERRAS HERMITAGE Recitation by Author Subject(s): Books & Reading; Aging SIESTA IN XBALBA Poem Text First Line: One could pass valuable months Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SIESTA IN XBALBA First Line: One could pass valuable months Last Line: In watery dusk submersion Subject(s): Travel SKY WORDS First Line: Sunrise dazzles the eye Last Line: Hell's televised, covered with words SLACK KEY GUITAR First Line: Sweet oahu Last Line: To the ocean %over kole kole SMOKE ROLLING DOWN STREET First Line: Red scabies on the skin Last Line: It's all over Subject(s): United States SOME LITTLE BOYS DONT First Line: Some little boys like it Last Line: Some kiddies play scrabble SOME WRITING FROM A JOURNAL (1959, NY) First Line: Went out looking for the %answer in the SONG Poem Text First Line: The weight of the world Subject(s): Love SONG First Line: The weight of the world %is love Last Line: To my body %where I was born SONG OF THE WASHING MACHINE First Line: Burned out burned out burned out Last Line: Better not better not better not better not SONORA DESERT-EDGE First Line: Brown stonepeaks rockstumps %cloudless sunlight Last Line: Bird radios - hopi rain Subject(s): United States SPHINCTER Poem Text First Line: I hope my good old asshole holds out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness SPHINCTER First Line: I hope my good old asshole holds out Last Line: Hope the old hole stays young %till death, relax Subject(s): Aids (disease); Homosexuality; Sickness SPOT ANGER First Line: Allen when you get angry you got two choices Last Line: Ovr manhattan weaving silver laughter %round skyscraper spires SPRING FASHIONS First Line: Full moon over the shopping mall Last Line: The naked mannequin observes her fingernails STANZAS: WRITTEN AT NIGHT IN RADIO CITY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If money made the mind more sane, Subject(s): Money; Sex STARRY RHYMES First Line: Sun rises east Last Line: Begin to drop STAY AWAY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE Last Line: Come down to earth merry xmas I wish you a happy new year STRANGE NEW COTTAGE IN BERKELEY First Line: All afternoon cutting bramble blackberries off a tottering brown fence Last Line: An angel thoughtful of my stomach, and my dry and lovelorn tongue STUDENT LOVE First Line: The boy's fresh faced, 18, big smile SUNDAY PRAYER First Line: An itch in the auditory canal scratches for years, use unguent SUNFLOWER SUTRA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision; Fancy; Railways; Trains SUNFLOWER SUTRA First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the Last Line: Motive riverbank sunset frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown %vision Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Last Line: Bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe? Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SUPPLICATION FOR THE REBIRGH OF THE VIDYADHARA CHOGYAM TRUNG First Line: Dear lord guru who pervades the space of my mind Last Line: By the vajra poet allen ginsberg supplicating protection of his %vijra guru chogyam trungpa SURPRISE MIND First Line: How lucky we are to have windows! SWAN SONGS IN THE PRESENT Last Line: Like other old men SWEET BOY, GIMME YR ASS Poem Text First Line: Lemme kiss your face, lick your neck Last Line: Softness this relaxed sweet sigh? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SWEET BOY, GIMME YR ASS First Line: Lemme kiss your face, lick your neck Last Line: Softness this relaxed sweet sigh Subject(s): Homosexuality SWEET LEVINSKY First Line: Sweet levinsky in the night SWIRLS OF BLACK DUST ON AVENUE D Poem Text First Line: White haze over manhattan's towers Subject(s): United States; America SWIRLS OF BLACK DUST ON AVENUE D First Line: White haze over manhattan's towers Last Line: The family car bumps over asphalt toward bright mexico Subject(s): United States TEARS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I'm crying all the time now Subject(s): Crying TEARS First Line: I'm crying all the time now Last Line: God appearing to be seen and cried over. Overflowing heart of paterson TELEVISION ADDRESS: 1972 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION First Line: My name: allen ginsberg, responding to this Last Line: Humanized, remote control mass violence. %allen ginsberg speaking extemporaneously in %charlotte, nc TELEVISION WAS A BABY CRAWLING TOWARD THAT DEATHCHAMBER First Line: Either we blow ourselves up now and die, like the old tribe of man, arguing Last Line: Island blissy darkness scattered in many manmind TERMS IN WHICH I THINK OF REALITY Poem Text First Line: Reality is a question Subject(s): Reality THE ARCHETYPE POEM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Joe blow has decided Subject(s): Love - Erotic THE BLUE ANGEL Poem Text First Line: Marlene dietrich is singing a lament Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE BRICK LAYERS' LUNCH HOUR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Two bricklayers are setting the walls Subject(s): Bricklayers THE CHARNEL GROUND Poem Text First Line: Http://media.Sas.Upenn.Edu/pennsound/authors/ginsberg/chicago-1959/ginsberg-allen_01_howl_big-table- Subject(s): Aging; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE GREEN AUTOMOBILE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If I had a green automobile Subject(s): Automobiles; Denver, Colorado; Cars THE LION FOR REAL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I came home and found a lion in my living room Subject(s): Animals; Gays & Lesbians; Lions; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LITTLE FISH DEVOURS THE BIG FISH Poem Text First Line: When the troops Subject(s): Social Problems THESE KNOWING AGE Last Line: These knowing age often %keep quiet THESE STATES, INTO L.A. Poem Text First Line: Organs and war news / radio static from saigon Subject(s): United States; America THESE STATES, INTO L.A. First Line: Organs and war news %radio static from saigon Last Line: Turquoise brilliance shining on sidestreets Subject(s): United States THEY'RE ALL PHANTOMS OF MY IMAGINING First Line: I needed a young musician take off his pants sit down on the bed and sing THIEF STOLE THIS POEM First Line: These days steal everything Last Line: Steal your sleep 6 am garbage trucks boomboxes sirens loud arguments hydrogen bombs %steal your univ THINGS I DON'T KNOW First Line: Dawn, a mastiff howls on the porch across the street THINGS I'LL NOT DO: NOSTALGIAS Poem Text First Line: Never go to bulgaria, had a booklet & invitation Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THINGS I'LL NOT DO: NOSTALGIAS First Line: Never go to bulgaria, had a booklet & invitation Last Line: Not myself except in an urn of ashes Subject(s): Homosexuality THINK TANK RHYMES First Line: Think tank Last Line: Hershey drink %einstein THIRTY STATE BUMMERS First Line: Take a pee pee take a bum Last Line: But usa takes all the money THIS FORM OF LIFE NEEDS SEX Poem Text First Line: I will have to accept women Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sex; Women; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THIS FORM OF LIFE NEEDS SEX First Line: I will have to accept women Last Line: And that's my situation, folks Subject(s): Homosexuality; Sex; Women THOSE TWO First Line: That tree said %I don't like that white car under me THOUGHTS SITTING BREATHING First Line: Om - the pride of perfumed money, music food from china Last Line: All space is fore-given to emptiness - %from earth to heart,free space THOUGHTS SITTING BREATHING II First Line: When I sat in my bedroom for devotions, meditations & prayers THROW OUT THE YELLOW JOURNALISTS OF BAD GRAMMAR' First Line: Who report ten commandments & golden rule forgetting TO AN OLD POET IN PERU Recitation by Author Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO AUNT ROSE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Aunt rose - now - might I see you Subject(s): Aunts TO AUNT ROSE First Line: Aunt rose - now - might I see you Last Line: The war in spain has ended long ago %aunt rose Subject(s): Aunts TO JACOB RABINOWITZ First Line: Dear jacob I received your translation, what kind Last Line: Humble enough to print these translations by yourself TO LINDSAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Vachel, the stars are out Subject(s): Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931); Suicide TO LINDSAY First Line: Vachel, the stars are out Last Line: Your shade falls over on the floor TO POE: OVER THE PLANET, AIR ALBANY-BALTIMORE First Line: Albany throned in snow Last Line: In the deathly gutter of 19th century Subject(s): United States TODAY First Line: O I am happy! O swami shivananda--a smile Last Line: Today is slowly ending--I will step back into it and disappear TRANSCRIPTION OF ORGAN MUSIC Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The flower in the glass peanut bottle formerly in the Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TREMBLING OF THE VEIL First Line: Today out of the window Last Line: At once when the wind %pushed them TUESDAY MORN First Line: Waking with aching back at base of spine, walked stiffly to kitchen Last Line: Phone robert frank? Yup, he's out, call early evening. I'm free TWO SCENES Poem Text First Line: Time mag's central american expert sd Last Line: Inhale their steaming bowls of mushroom barley soup. Subject(s): Haig, Alexander; Kiev, Ukraine UNDER THE WORLD THERE'S A LOT OF ASS, A LOT OF CUNT Poem Text First Line: A lot of mouths and cocks, UNDER THE WORLD THERE'S A LOT OF ASS, A LOT OF CUNT First Line: A lot of mouths and cocks Last Line: Dysentery; homeless millions, tortured hearts, empty souls UPTOWN Poem Text First Line: Yellow-lit budweiser signs over oaken bars Subject(s): Hate UPTOWN First Line: Yellow-lit budweiser signs over oaken bars Last Line: And 'bless you sir' I added as he went to his fate in the rain, dapper irishman Subject(s): Hate VARIATIONS ON MA RAINEY'S SEE SEE RIDER First Line: I've been down at the bus stop Last Line: Mama's long time gone VELOCITY OF MONEY First Line: I'm delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through windows Last Line: So I can go back to sleep till the landlord wins his eviction suit in court VIOLENCE First Line: Mexcity drugstore table, giant %sexfiend in black spats Last Line: Hustle after midnight to cut my throat from its beard Subject(s): United States VIOLENT COLLABORATIONS First Line: Trespass against me Last Line: Then hose me down w/your stud VIRTUAL IMPUNITY BLUES First Line: With virtual impunity clinton got campaign funds from pink chinese Last Line: With virtual impunity albanian lottery bosses bought & sold elections VOMIT EXPRESS First Line: I'm going down to puerto rico Last Line: I'm going down with my suitcase pain VOW First Line: I will haunt these states Last Line: Over puerto rican agony lawyers' screams in slums Subject(s): United States; War WALES VISITATION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Wales; Fancy; Welshmen; Welshwomen WALES VISITATION First Line: White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow Last Line: Upward in motion with wet wind Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Wales WAR PROFIT LITANY Poem Text First Line: These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war Last Line: 1967 furthers this poem of these states Subject(s): United States; America WAR PROFIT LITANY First Line: These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war Last Line: And the first form of this litany begun first day december 1967 furthers this poem of these states Subject(s): United States WARIBASHI First Line: Walk into your local japanese resturant teriyaki boy Last Line: New sprig of parsley, lift the chopsticks to your mouth enjoy sashimi WE RISE ON SUN BEAMS AND FALL IN THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Dawn's orb orange-raw shining over palisades WE RISE ON SUN BEAMS AND FALL IN THE NIGHT First Line: Dawn's orb orange-raw shining over palisades Last Line: With pen in hand awake WESTERN BALLAD First Line: When I died, love, when I died WHAT THE SEA THROWS UP AT VLISSENGEN First Line: Plastic & cellophane, milk cartons & yogurt containers blue & orange Last Line: A rusty iron pipe, me and my peepee WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU LOST IT?' First Line: Said rinpoche chogyam trungpa tulku in the marble glittering apartment lobby Last Line: Mouth for singing, no song for the hearer, no more words for any mind WHAT YOU UP TO? First Line: Oh just hanging around picking my nose Last Line: No I don't want to stop I like it dirty %like this WHEN THE LIGHT APPEARS First Line: You'll bare your bones you'll grow you'll pray you'll only know Last Line: When the light appears, boy, when the light appears WHITE SHROUD First Line: I am summoned from my bed WHITMANIC POEM First Line: We children, we Last Line: Dominated by lust WHO BE KIND TO Poem Text First Line: Be kind to your self, it is only one WHO BE KIND TO First Line: Be kind to your self, it is only one and perishable Last Line: Since the days of the snake WHO EATS WHO? First Line: A crow sits on the prayerflagpole Last Line: Enemy's powers & energy become mine! WHO RUNS AMERICA? Poem Text First Line: Oil brown smog over denver Subject(s): United States; America WHY I MEDITATE First Line: I sit because the dadaists screamed on mirror street Last Line: I sit for world revolution WHY IS GOD LOVE, JACK? Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Because I lay my Subject(s): Love WHY IS GOD LOVE, JACK? First Line: Because I lay my Last Line: I confess my ashamed desire Subject(s): Love WICHITA VORTEX SUTRA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Turn right next corner Subject(s): Wichita, Kansas WICHITA VORTEX SUTRA First Line: Turn right next corner Last Line: Still pining for love of your tender white bodies o children of wichita! Subject(s): Wichita, Kansas WICHITA VORTEX SUTRA I Recitation by Author WICHITA VORTEX SUTRA II Recitation by Author WICHITA VORTEZ SUTRA IV Recitation by Author WILD ORPHAN Poem Text First Line: Bladly mother/takes him strolling Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WINGS LIFTED OVER THE BLACK PIT Poem Text First Line: City flats, coal yards and brown rivers Last Line: "watercourses running with oil Subject(s): United States; America WINGS LIFTED OVER THE BLACK PIT First Line: City flats, coal yards and brown rivers Last Line: Watercourses running with oil %fish fellows dead Subject(s): United States WORLD BANK BLUES First Line: I work for the world bank yes I do Last Line: When debt bore fruit on the world money tree WORLD KARMA First Line: China be china, b.C. Clay armies underground the first han emperor's improvemen WRITTEN IN MY DREAM BY W. C. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: As is/you're hearing Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WRITTEN IN MY DREAM BY W. C. WILLIAMS First Line: As is %you're bearing Last Line: Will end %wiser XMAS GIFT First Line: I met einstein in a dream Last Line: Considering the atom bomb I didn't mention YIDDISHE KOPF First Line: I'm jewish because love my family matzoh ball soup Last Line: How can they stand it, going out in the world with only $10 and a hydrogen bomb? YOU DON'T KNOW IT First Line: In russia the tyrant cockroach mustache ate 20 million souls Last Line: To fall asleep & snore don't I know it YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?' Poem Text First Line: I was shy and tender as a 10 year old kid, you know what I'm saying? Last Line: She was nice to me a scared gay kid at eastside high , you know what I'm saying? / allen ginsberg Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?' First Line: I was shy and tender as a 10 year old kid, you know what I'm saying? Last Line: She was nice to me a scared gay kid at eastside high, you know what I'm saying? 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