An Asphodel

Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg

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O dear sweet rosy
     unattainable desire
...how sad, no way
     to change the mad
cultivated asphodel, the
     visible reality... and skin's appalling
     petals--how inspired
to be so Iying in the living
     room drunk naked
and dreaming, in the absence
     of electricity...
over and over eating the low root
     of the asphodel,
gray fate...      rolling in generation
on the flowery couch
     as on a bank in Arden--
my only rose tonite's the treat
     of my own ******.                          Fall,
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg

1926 - 1997/Male/AmericanIrwin Allen Ginsberg was a Beat Generation poet opposing militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression.

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