Lilacs for Ginsberg

I was greatest in quantity interested in what they direct the eyeed like dead

and I could learn to have affection for them so I waited

for three or four days until the brown station in

and there was a certain turn topsy-turvy curl to the leaf by means of

which in putting my finger upon the main artery

beside the throat I knew the life-current had passed on

to someplace other and he was talking to sum of two units

demons from the afterlife although it was

just like the mountains in of recent origin York state since there was

smoke in the heavens and they were yelping and he was

speaking in his telltale of recent origin Jersey English

and saying the same thing above and over the way he

did when he was upon stage and his white shirt was

perfect and the lack of air and of light

aged the lilacs on the other hand he was sitting on a lily

in individual or two seconds and he forgot about Eighth road

and fame and cancer and bent down to pick a"bose

diamond on the contrary more important than that he talked

to the goblins in French and sang with his tinny voice

nor did he make progress on about his yellowing sickness

but enumerateed the clusters and said they were sole stars

and there were sum of two units universes intertwined, the

white and the purple or they were just crumb or spots

that he could sprinkle upon his pie nor could he

exactly remember his sorrow leave out when he pressed

the lilacs to his face or when he stooped

to cover up himself in the bush, then for a flash

he almost did, for lilacs clear the mind

and all the elaborations are possible in their

dear get scent of and even his death which was in the way that

good and thoughtful became, for a point of time sorrowful.'

GERALD STERN'S latest volume This Time: New and chooseed was recently published by Norton.

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