Toenail-thickening age of me,
Sugar coating my nerves, leg
muscles lacking blood, weak kneed
Heart insufficient, a thick'd valve-wall,Short of breath, six pounds
overweight with water-
logged liver, gut & lung - up at 4 a.m.reading Shakespeare.
February 4, 1977, 4:03 A.M., NYC
Allen Ginsberg with Peter Orlovsky,
1963, a photo by Richard Avedon
The aging male finds his painful body on paper, another fragile form of materiality, while reading Shakespeare at 4 o'clock in the morning. This is what I mean by male hysteria.
Allen Ginsberg with Peter Orlovsky,1963, a photo by Richard Avedon
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