Reality sandwiches, 1953-60 by Allen Ginsberg

By Allen Ginsberg

“Scribbled mystery notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for 12 months personal joy.” lots of Ginsberg’s most famed poems.Wake-up nightmares in reduce East facet, musings in public library, around the U.S. in dream vehicle, inebriated in previous Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, intercourse daydreams at the West Coast, plane imaginative and prescient of Kansas, lonely in a leafy cottage, lunch hour on Berkeley, beer notations on Skid Row, slinking to Mexico, wrote this final evening in Paris, again on occasions sq. dreaming of occasions sq., bombed in big apple back, loony tunes within the dentist chair, screaming at previous poets in South the USA, aethereal zigzag Poesy in blue lodge room in Peru—a wind-up e-book of goals, psalms, magazine enigmas & nude mins from 1953 to 1960 poems scattered in fugitive magazines right here gathered.

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A creak in the rooms scared me. Some sort of bird, vampire or swallow, flees with little paper wingflap around the summit in its own air unconcerned with the great stone tree I perch on. Continual metallic whirr of chicharras, then lesser chirps of cricket: 5 blasts of the leg whistle. The creak of an opening door in the forest, some sort of weird birdsong or reptile croak. My hat woven of hennequin on the stone floor as a leaf on the waters, as perishable; my candle wavers continuously and will go out.

In all -- What'll you buy me when I land -- one icecream soda? -- poor pile of coins, original reminders of the sadness, forgotten money of America -- nostalgia of the first touch of those coins, American change, the memory in my aging hand, the same old silver reflec- tive there, the thin dime hidden between my thumb and forefinger All the struggles for those coins, the sadness of their re- appearance my reappearance on those fabled shores and the failure of that Dream, that Vision of Money reduced to this haunting recollection of the gas lot in Paterson where I found half a dollar gleaming in the grass -- I have a $5 bill in my pocket -- it's Lincoln's sour black head moled wrinkled, forelocked too, big eared, flags of announce- ment flying over the bill, stamps in green and spiderweb black, long numbers in racetrack green, immense promise, a girl, a hotel, a busride to Albany, a night of brilliant drunk in some faraway corner of Manhattan a stick of several teas, or paper or cap of Heroin, or a $5 strange present to the blind.

Contents: My Alba Sakyamuni Coming out from the Mountain The Green Automobile Havana Siesta in Xbalba On Burroughs' Work Love Poem on Theme By Whitman Over Kansas Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo Dream Record Blessed be the muses Fragment 1956 A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley Sather Gate Illumination Scribble Afternoon Seattle Psalm III Tears Ready To Roll Wrote This Last Night Squeal American Change 'Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square' My Sad Self Funny Death Battleship Newsreel I Beg You Come Back & Be Cheerful To An Old Poet in Peru Aether MY ALBA Now that I've wasted five years in Manhattan life decaying talent a blank talking disconnected patient and mental sliderule and number machine on a desk autographed triplicate synopsis and taxes obedient prompt poorly paid stayed on the market youth of my twenties fainted in offices wept on typewriters deceived multitudes in vast conspiracies deodorant battleships serious business industry every six weeks whoever drank my blood bank innocent evil now part of my system five years unhappy labor 22 to 27 working not a dime in the bank to show for it anyway dawn breaks it's only the sun the East smokes O my bedroom I am damned to Hell what alarmclock is ringing NY 1953 SAKYAMUNI COMING OUT FROM THE MOUNTAIN Liang Kai, Southern Sung He drags his bare feet out of a cave under a tree, eyebrows grown long with weeping and hooknosed woe, in ragged soft robes wearing a fine beard, unhappy hands clasped to his naked breast -- humility is beatness humility is beatness -- faltering into the bushes by a stream, all things inanimate but his intelligence -- stands upright there tho trembling: Arhat who sought Heaven under a mountain of stone, sat thinking till he realized the land of blessedness exists in the imagination -- the flash come: empty mirror -- how painful to be born again wearing a fine beard, reentering the world a bitter wreck of a sage: earth before him his only path.

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