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Un Supermarch En Californie

by Allen Ginsberg

Quelles penses j'ai de toi ce soir, l'homme de Walt Whit-, parce que
moi a descendu les sidestreets sous les arbres avec un mal de tte
timide regardant la pleine lune. Dans mon fatigue affame, et achats
pour des images, je suis entr dans le supermarch au non de
fruit, rvant de vos numrations ! Quelles pches et quelles
penumbras ! Ilies entiers de fam- faisant des emplettes la nuit !
Bas-cts compltement des maris ! Des pouses dans les avocats,
les bbs dans le tomatoes! -- et toi, Garca Lorca, que faisais-tu
vers le bas par les pastques ?

J'ai vu toi, Walt Whitman, vieux grubber sans enfant et isol,
poussant parmi les viandes dans le rfrigrateur et eyeing les
garons d'picerie. Je t'ai entendu poser des questions de chacun:
Qui a tu les ctelettes de porc ? Quelles bananes des prix ? Es-tu
mon ange ? J'ai err dans et hors des piles brillantes de bidons te
suivant, et ai suivi dans mon imagination du dtective de magasin.
Nous avons progress en bas des couloirs ouverts ensemble en nos
artichauts de fantaisie solitaires d'chantillon, possdant chaque
dlicatesse surgele, et ne passant jamais le caissier. O
allons-nous, Walt Whitman ? Les portes se ferment dans une heure. Quel
chemin votre barbe indique-t-elle ce soir ? (je touche votre livre et
rve de notre odysse dans le supermarch et me sens absurde.)
Marcherons-nous toute la nuit par les rues solitaires ? Les arbres
ajoutent l'ombre l'ombre, lumires dehors dans les maisons, nous
veulent tous les deux soient isols. Flnerons-nous rvant
l'Amrique perdue par ofthe de l'amour aprs les automobiles bleues
dans des alles, maison notre petite maison silencieuse ?
Ampreheure, cher pre, graybeard, vieux professeur seul de courage,
la quelle Amrique as-tu quand Charon stopper poling son bac et toi
est sorti sur une banque de tabagisme et tenu observant le bateau
disparatre sur les eaux noires de Lethe ?

Berkeley 1955


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  Poems by Allen Ginsberg
  1. 136 Syllables At Rocky Mountain Dha
  2. America
  3. An Asphodel
  4. An Eastern Ballad
  5. A Desolation
  6. A Supermarket In California
  7. A Western Ballad
  8. CIA Dope Calypso
  9. Cosmopolitan Greetings
  10. Crossing Nation
  11. Death Fame
  12. Father Death Blues Dont Grow Old Pa
  13. Feb 29 1958
  14. First Party At Ken Keseys With Hell
  15. Five AM
  16. Footnote To Howl
  17. Fourth Floor Dawn Up All Night Writ
  18. Haiku Never Published
  19. Homework
  20. Howl
  21. Hum Bom
  22. In Back Of The Real
  23. In The Baggage Room At Greyhound
  24. Kissass
  25. Making The Lion For All Its Got --
  26. Nagasaki Days
  27. Please Master
  28. Plutonian Ode
  29. Psalm IV
  30. Refrain
  31. September On Jessore Road
  32. Song
  33. Sphincter
  34. Sunflower Sutra
  35. The Lion For Real
  36. Those Two
  37. Transcription Of Organ Music
  38. War Profit Litany
  39. When The Light Appears
  40. Wild Orphan
 
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