Understand That This Is A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFFGHIJKILMNKKO MNNP N KQRSTN K KKUKVWMRN M X Y NZA2KKB2C2D2E2 F2G2H2 N KB V INV I BNNNYI2 E2 ZA2VI2 K MNE2NKJ2MKKVVK V AK2 K V K I2K O I2NNVK V MReal as a dream | A |
What shall I do with this great opportunity to fly | B |
What is the interpretation of this planet this moon | C |
if I can dream that I dream and dream anything dreamable can I dream | A |
I am awake and why do that | D |
When I dream in a dream that I wake up what | E |
happens when I try to move | F |
I dream that I move | F |
and the effort moves and moves | G |
till I move and my arm hurts | H |
Then I wake up dismayed I was dreaming I was waking | I |
when I was dreaming still just now | J |
and try to remember next time in dreams | K |
that I am in dreaming | I |
And dream anything I want when I'm awaken | L |
When I'm in awakeness what do I desire | M |
I desire to fulfill my emotional belly | N |
My whole body my heart in my fingertops thrill with some old fulfillments | K |
Pages of celestial rhymes burning fire words | K |
unconsumable but disappear | O |
Arcane parchments my own and the universe the answer | M |
Belly to Belly and knee to knee | N |
The hot spurt of my body to thee and thee | N |
old boy dreamy Earl you Prince of Paterson now king of me lost | P |
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Haledon | N |
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first dream that made me take down my pants | K |
urgently to show the cars auto tracks rolling down avenue hill | Q |
That far back what do I remember but the face of the leader of the gang | R |
was blond that loved me one day on the steps of his house blocks away | S |
all afternoon I told him about my magic Spell | T |
I can do anything I want palaces millions chemistry sets chicken | N |
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coops white horses | K |
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stables and torture basements I inspect my naked victims | K |
chained upside down my fingertips thrill approval on their thighs | K |
white hairless cheeks I may kiss all I want | U |
at my mercy on the racks | K |
I pass with my strong attendants I am myself naked | V |
bending down with my buttocks out | W |
for their smacks of reproval o the heat of desire | M |
liek shit in my asshole The strange gang | R |
across the street thru the grocerystore in the wood alley out in the open | N |
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on the corner | M |
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Because I lied to the Dentist about that chickencoop roofing slate stolen off | X |
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his garage | Y |
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by me and the boy I loved who would punish me if he knew | N |
what I loved him | Z |
That now I have had that boy back in another blond form | A2 |
Peter Orlovsky a Chinese teenager in Bangkok ten years twenty years | K |
Jo Army on the campus white blond loins my mouth hath kisses | K |
full of his cock my ass burning full of his cock | B2 |
all that I do desire In dream and awake | C2 |
this handsome body mine answered | D2 |
all I desired intimate loves open eyed revealed at last clothes on the | E2 |
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floor | F2 |
Underwear the most revealing stripped off below the belly button in bed | G2 |
That's that yes yes the flat cocks the red pricks the gentle public hair | H2 |
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alone with me | N |
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my magic spell My power what I desire alone what after thirty years | K |
I got forever after thirty years satisfied enough with Peter with all I | B |
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wanted | V |
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with many men I knew one generation our sperm passing | I |
into our mouths and bellies beautiful when I love given | N |
Now the dream oldens I olden my hair a year long my thirtyeight | V |
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birthday approaching | I |
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I dream I | B |
am bald am disappearing the campus unrecognizable Haledon Avenue | N |
will be covered with neon motels Supermarkets iron | N |
the porches and woods changed when i go back to see Earl again | N |
He'll be bald fleshy father I could pursie him further in the garage | Y |
If there's still a garage on the hill on the planet when I get back | I2 |
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From Asia | E2 |
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If I could even remember his name or his face or find him | Z |
When I was ten perhaps he exists in some form | A2 |
With a belly and a belt and an auto | V |
Whatever his last name I never knew in the phonebook the Akashic | I2 |
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records | K |
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I'll write my Inspiration for all Mankind to remember | M |
My Idea the secret cave in the clothes closet that house probably down | N |
Nothing to go back to everything's gone only my idea | E2 |
that's disappearing even in dreams gray dust piles instant annihilation | N |
of World War II and all its stainless steel shining mouthed cannons | K |
much less me and my grammar school kisses I never kissed in time | J2 |
and go on kissing in dream and out on the street as if it were for ever | M |
No forever left Even my oldest forever gone in Bangkok in Benares | K |
swept up with words and bodies all into the brown Ganges | K |
passing the burning grounds and into the police state | V |
My mind my mind you had six feet of Earth to hoe | V |
Why didn't you remember and plant the seed of Law and gather the sprouts | K |
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of What | V |
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the golden blossoms of what idea If I dream that I dream what dream | A |
should I dream next Motorcycle rickshaws parting lamp shine little | K2 |
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taxis horses hoofs | K |
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on this Saigon midnight street Angkor Wat ahead and the ruined city's old | V |
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Hindu faces | K |
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and there was a dream about Eternity What should I dream when I wake | I2 |
What's left to dream more Chinese meat More magic Spells More youths | K |
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to love before I change disappear | O |
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More dream words For now that I know that I am dreaming | I2 |
What next for you Allen Run down to the Presidents Palace full of Morphine | N |
The cocks crowing in the street Dawn trucks What is the question | N |
Do I need sleep now that there's light in the window | V |
I'll go to sleep Signing off until the next idea the moving van arrives | K |
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empty | V |
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at the Doctor's house full of Chinese furniture | M |
Allen Ginsberg
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