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Those Two

by Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

That tree said
I don't like that white car under me,
it smells gasoline
That other tree next to it said
O you're always complaining
you're a neurotic
you can see by the way you're bent over.

July 6, 1981, 8 p.m.




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