Wait Till I'm Dead by Ginsberg, Allen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Also by Allen Ginsberg Title Page Copyright Contents Epigraph Foreword by Rachel Zucker Note from the Editor 1940s

Rep Gordon Canfield We leave the youthful pennants and the books, A Night in the Village Epitaph for a Suicide Epitaph for a Poet Song To live and deal with life as if it were a stone. Behold! The Swinging Swan

1950s

Her Engagement Hitch-Hiking Key West In a Red Bar What’s buzzing Thus on a Long Bus Ride We rode on a lonely bus There’s nobody here On Nixon; Chain Poem Dawn A Lion Met America Leave the Bones Behind The Real Distinguished Thing

1960s

To Frank O’Hara & John Ashbery & Kenneth Koch Yesterday I was writing in Heaven or of Heaven Ayahuasca— Walt Whitman Tokyo Tower B.C. [Bob Creeley] War Is Black Magic Journals November 22, ‘63 May Day In a Shaking Hand Little Flower M.M. [Marianne Moore] Don’t Know Who I Am Liverpool Muse New York to San Fran Entering Kansas City High Cleveland Airport Busted Nashville April 8 After Wales Visitacione July 29 1967 Mabillon Noctambules Genocide No Money, No War

1970s

May King’s Prophecy For The Soul of the Planet Is Wakening Six Senses Frank O’Hara darkly Hum! Hum! Hum! The world’s an illusion Reef Mantra Postcard to D Inscribed In George Whitman’s Guest Register On Farm Wyoming Exorcism Eyes Full of Pitchpine Smoke Freedom of Speech Green Notebook Imagination Spring night four a.m. Louis’ First Night In Grave Kidneystone Opium Traum Homage to Paris at the Bottom of the Barrel Bebbe put me on your lap Verses Included In Howl Reading Boston City Hall All The Things I’ve Got to Do No Way Back to the Past A Brief Praise of Anne’s Affairs Popeye and William Blake Fight to the Death For School Kids in New Jersey

1980s

Second Spontaneous Collaboration Into the Air, Circa 23 May 1980 A Tall Student Good God I got high bloodpressure answering Amnesiac Thirst For Fame A knock, look in the mirror The Black Man Thundering Undies Trungpa Lectures Pinsk After Dark Two Scenes Listening to Susan Sontag You Want Money? Cats Scratching I used to live in gay sad Paris! As the rain drips from the gutter on to the bushes of the imperial court lawn Having bowed down my forehead on the pavement on Central Park West Far Away Back to Wuppertal Am I a Spy From the Moon? Awakened at dawn trying to run away— Grey clouds hang over 1/29/84 N.Y.C. CXXV Rose Is Gone 3’d day down Yangtze River, yesterday African Spirituality Will Save the Earth Face to Face Who’s Gone? Bob Dylan Touring with Grateful Dead

1990s

Asia Minor for Gregory The moon in the dewdrop is the real moon New Years Greeting Hermaphrodite Market Last Conversation with Carl or In Memoriam Dream of Carl Solomon

Acknowledgments Notes Notes on the Photographs Index of Titles and First Lines Back Cover