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America (Ginsberg)

 

America why are your libraries full tears?
-- Allen Ginsberg. "America"
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Your machinery is too much for me.
-- Allen Ginsberg. "America"
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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 my self again.
-- Allen Ginsberg. "America"
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