Allen Ginsberg (3 June 1926 – 5 April 1997 / Newark, New Jersey)
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A Desolaltion
Now mind is clear
as a cloudless sky.
Time then to make a
home in wilderness.
What have I done but
wander with my eyes
in the trees? So I
will build: wife,
family, and seek
for neighbors.
Or I
perish of lonesomeness
or want of food or
lightning or the bear
(must tame the hart
and wear the bear).
And maybe make an image
of my wandering, a little
image—shrine by the
roadside to signify
to traveler that I live
here in the wilderness
awake and at home.
Allen Ginsberg
Submitted: Thursday, April 01, 2010
Edited: Monday, May 16, 2011
Poems by Allen Ginsberg : 2 / 50
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