Friday, June 17, 2005

from "America"

by Allen Ginsberg

I'm addressing you.
Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?
I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie
producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.

1 Comments:

Blogger fred burgess! said...

I dedicate this to Ankush, who recently told me that he's been obsessively reading magazines.

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