Allen Ginsberg "The rising of america" (*)

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'