America, We Coulda Been Empty Together

America

Written and read

By Allen Ginsberg

The YouTube version, you know

The crowd laughs uproariously

Is it meant to be funny?

I don't think it's funny

We coulda been empty together

Remember that

We coulda watched the mushroom clouds go up

We coulda died together

But now I gotta get better

I'm better than I ever been

But more aware

Veil of youth lifted up

You know I'm naked underneath

And I'm building a balsa wood raft

And I'm smoking like a sailor

And I'm letting the water rush over me

And I'm getting better

The path of least resistance would have been to stay blind bide my time and follow that pattern I know like the wrinkles in my fingers.

Tale as old as time Bluebeard's bride you woulda kept me in a little cage I'm so much younger than you, you know that? It wasn't right.

I can't help it's so romantic like a story book (this is a pivot) I am determined nothing happens unless you want it.