What I love about this poem by Allen Ginsberg is that Walt Whitman features and that the way that A. Gins writes it mimics Whitman's prosey poems. I love that without even looking at the published date, I know approximately when this poem was written. It just smacks of the 1960s and hippies and the beat generation. Shoot, I just looked and it was actually written in 1956. Well, good stuff like him is always ahead of its time.
Favorite line: "Whole families shopping at/night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!"
Friday, April 9, 2010
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