What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
ATTRIBUTION:
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. “A Supermarket in California,” Howl and Other Poems (1956).
