Just a remembrance of an evening many years ago.
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Seeing the poet Allen Ginsberg read to a very small group left a lasting impression, and for some reason this song came into my head fairly recently as I was riding my bike.
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I saw Allen Ginsberg read
in the basement of John Oliver high school
Reading to a group of about maybe forty.
He read some short and he read some long
and he sang us Blake's "Nurses Song"
And "all the winds echoed"
and he said
If I have a heart attack on the track around Lake Louise
will I be ready to face my mother
If I have a heart attack on the track around Lake Louise
will I be ready to face my mother
And the mannequin stares at her fingernails.
I saw Allen Ginsberg read
I was young and melancholy, all alone
and it made me feel the way you can feel when you're young.
He read us Howl and America
and his pen ran out of ink
as he was signing my copy of Reality Sandwiches
and he said
If I have a heart attack.........
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