Allen Ginsberg - Howl Plus Bonus Tracks

In Back of the Real

railroad yard in San Jose
I wandered desolate
in front of a tank factory
and sat on a bench
near the switchman's shack.
A flower lay on the hay on
the asphalt highway
I thought--It had a
brittle black stem and
corolla of yellowish dirty
spikes like Jesus' inchlong
crown, and a soiled
dry center cotton tuft
like a used shaving brush
that's been lying under
the garage for a year.
Yellow, yellow flower, and
flower of industry,
tough spiky ugly flower,
flower nonetheless,
with the form of the great yellow
Rose in your brain!
This is the flower of the World.



Credits
Writer(s): Allen Ginsberg, John William Shoudy
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Howl
  2. The Sunflower Sutra
  3. Footnote to Howl
  4. A Supermarket in California
  5. Transcription of Organ Music
  6. America
  7. In Back of the Real
  8. Strange Coittage in Berkeley
  9. Europe, Europe
  10. Kaddish

All Album Tracks: Howl Plus Bonus Tracks >

Altri album

  1. The Lion For Real, Re-born
  2. At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of Howl & Other Poems
  3. The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience
  4. Howl Plus Bonus Tracks
  5. The Essential Poet Collection
  6. Spoken Word Collection
  7. Ginsberg's Things
  8. Ballad of the Lights
  9. Howl
  10. Howl (Remastered)

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