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P O E M S
by allen ginsberg

Rock Song
On Neal's Ashes
An Eastern Ballad

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Poems and illustrations
excerpted with permission
from Illuminated Poems
by Allen Ginsberg with
illustrations by Eric Drooker
(Four Walls
Eight Windows, 1996)

This Form of Life Needs Sex

I will have to accept women

if I want to continue the race,

kiss breasts, accept

strange hairy lips behind

buttocks

Look in questioning womanly eyes

answer soft cheeks,

bury my loins in the hang of pearplum

fat tissue

I had abhorred

before I give godspasm Babe leap

forward thru death --

Between me and oblivion an unknown

woman stands;

Not the Muse but living meat-phantom,

a mystery scary as my fanged god

sinking its foot in its gullet &

vomiting its own image out of its ass

-- This woman Futurity I am pledge to

born not to die,

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