[New-Poetry] Dubious

Rsgwynn1 at cs.com Rsgwynn1 at cs.com
Sat May 31 16:31:34 EDT 2008


In a message dated 5/31/2008 3:25:33 PM Central Daylight Time, 
Opus40-01 at opus40.org writes: 
> 
> Allen Ginsberg joins the Monkees:
> 
> I’M WITH YOU ON THE LAST TRAIN TO ROCKLAND
> 
> 
> Take the last train to Rockland,
> And I’ll meet you in the lobby.
> You’ll be in the soup of time
> so don’t forget to bring kohlrabi,
> oh, no, no, no!
> Oh, no, no, no!
> 
> ’cause the angelheaded hipsters
> left for balls and endless cock
> We’ll overturn one pingpong table
> ’til the morning brings us shock
> And I must glow, oh, no, no, no!
> Oh, no, no, no!
> And I don’t know if I’m ever coming home.
> 
> Take the last train to Rockland,
> And I’ll see you in a bit.
> We’ll have dreams and adorations
> 
> And that sensitive bullshit
> I wanna blow. oh, no, no, no!
> Oh, no, no, no!
> And I don’t know if I’m ever coming home.
> 
Great.  This reminds me that for some years I read that phrase as 
"angleheaded hipsters" until a student called my attention to it.  Dyslexia.   
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