Written by : Allen Ginsberg
European Trib. boy's face
phot'd eyes opened, young
feminine beardless
radiant kid lain back smiling
looking upward.
Calm as if ladies' lips
were kissing invisible parts
of the body.
Aged reposeful angelic boy corpse
(...)
Women in bowler hats
sitting in mud
outskirts 11.000 feet up
in heaven
with a headache in La Paz
Selling black potatoes
brought down from earth
roof'd nuts on mountain-lipped
Puno would've
adored your desire and kissed
your visage new Christ.
They'll raise up a red-bulb-eyed
war mask's white tusks to scare
soldier-ghosts who shot thru your
lungs.
(...)
One radiant face driven mad with a riffle
confronting the electric networks.
Nov. 1.967- Venice, Italy
(*) Taken from the book:
'The fall of America'

