P O E M S
by allen ginsberg

Rock Song
On Neal's Ashes
An Eastern Ballad


Poems and illustrations
excerpted with permission
from Illuminated Poems
by Allen Ginsberg with
illustrations by Eric Drooker
(Four Walls
Eight Windows, 1996)

but my issue my own cockbrain replica Me-Hood

again -- For fear of the Blot?

Face of Death, my Female, as I'm sainted

to my very bone,

I'm fated to find me a maiden for

ignorant Fuckery --

flapping my belly & smeared with Saliva

shamed face flesh & wet,

-- have long droopy conversations

in Cosmical Duty boudoirs,

maybe bored?

Or excited New Prospect, discuss

her, Futurity, my Wife

My Mother, Death, My only

hope, my very Resurrection

Woman

herself, why have I feared

to be joined true

embraced beneath the Panties of Forever

in with the one hole that repelled me 1937 on?

-- Pulled down my pants on the porch showing

my behind to cars passing in the rain --

& She be interested, this contact with Silly new Male

that's sucked my loveman's cock

in Adoration & sheer beggary romance-awe

gulp-choke Hope of Life come

and buggered myself innumerably boy-yangs

gloamed inward so my solar plexus

feel godhead in me like an open door --

Now that's changed my decades body old

tho' admiring male thighs at my brow,

hard love pulsing thru my ears,

stern buttocks upraised

for my masterful Rape

that were meant for a private shit

if the Army were All --

But no more answer to life

than the muscular statue

I felt up its marbles

envying Beauty's immortality in the

museum of Yore --

You can fuck a statue but you can't

have children

You can joy man to man but the Sperm

comes back in a trickle at dawn

in a toilet on the 45th Floor --

& Can't make continuous mystery out of that

finished performance

& ghastly thrill

that ends as began,

stupid reptile squeak

denied life by Fairy Creator

become Imaginary

because he decided not to incarnate

opposite -- Old Spook

who didn't want to be a baby & die,

didn't want to shit and scream

exposed to bombardment on a

Chinese RR track

and grow up to pass his spasm on

the other half of the Universe --

Like a homosexual capitalist afraid of the masses --

and that's my situation, Folks --

New York, April 12, 1961