allen ginsberg: america

BRILLIANT ♥

Burroughs was good, Kerouac was great, Ginsberg was God.

America this is quite serious.

When will you reinvent the heart?
When will you manufacture lands?
When will your cowboys reach spangler?

When will your dams release the flood of eastern tears?

When will your technicians get drunk and abolish money?

When will we institute religions of perception ill legislators?

When can I go into the super market and buy what I need with my good looks?

America after all it is you and I that is
perfect, not the next world.

You're machinery is too much for me

*When will your cowboys read Spengler?*

Also it seems to me like this poem was intended to be serious, but the audiance was just in a laughing mood for some reason. And it made Ginsberg laugh and read it with a more cheerful tone, and there is some funny lines but it definetly seems like a more serious, deep poem.

@damM3 Seems to me that all great comedy has a serious point to make.

@damM3 Of course I think it is serious, but the humour of the poem is quite blatant to me. As Eliot said, humour is was of saying something serious.

He was such a genius So funny and so truthfull

hey i just got into beat-poetry can someone recommend more poets like ginsberg or jack kerouac

@y3k23k gregory corso wrote some great stuff as well