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 M

Real as a dreamA
What shall I do with this great opportunity to flyB
What is the interpretation of this planet this moonC
if I can dream that I dream and dream anything dreamable can I dreamA
I am awake and why do thatD
When I dream in a dream that I wake up whatE
happens when I try to moveF
I dream that I moveF
and the effort moves and movesG
till I move and my arm hurtsH
Then I wake up dismayed I was dreaming I was wakingI
when I was dreaming still just nowJ
and try to remember next time in dreamsK
that I am in dreamingI
And dream anything I want when I'm awakenL
When I'm in awakeness what do I desireM
I desire to fulfill my emotional bellyN
My whole body my heart in my fingertops thrill with some old fulfillmentsK
Pages of celestial rhymes burning fire wordsK
unconsumable but disappearO
Arcane parchments my own and the universe the answerM
Belly to Belly and knee to kneeN
The hot spurt of my body to thee and theeN
old boy dreamy Earl you Prince of Paterson now king of me lostP
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HaledonN
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first dream that made me take down my pantsK
urgently to show the cars auto tracks rolling down avenue hillQ
That far back what do I remember but the face of the leader of the gangR
was blond that loved me one day on the steps of his house blocks awayS
all afternoon I told him about my magic SpellT
I can do anything I want palaces millions chemistry sets chickenN
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coops white horsesK
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stables and torture basements I inspect my naked victimsK
chained upside down my fingertips thrill approval on their thighsK
white hairless cheeks I may kiss all I wantU
at my mercy on the racksK
I pass with my strong attendants I am myself nakedV
bending down with my buttocks outW
for their smacks of reproval o the heat of desireM
liek shit in my asshole The strange gangR
across the street thru the grocerystore in the wood alley out in the openN
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on the cornerM
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Because I lied to the Dentist about that chickencoop roofing slate stolen offX
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his garageY
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by me and the boy I loved who would punish me if he knewN
what I loved himZ
That now I have had that boy back in another blond formA2
Peter Orlovsky a Chinese teenager in Bangkok ten years twenty yearsK
Jo Army on the campus white blond loins my mouth hath kissesK
full of his cock my ass burning full of his cockB2
all that I do desire In dream and awakeC2
this handsome body mine answeredD2
all I desired intimate loves open eyed revealed at last clothes on theE2
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floorF2
Underwear the most revealing stripped off below the belly button in bedG2
That's that yes yes the flat cocks the red pricks the gentle public hairH2
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alone with meN
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my magic spell My power what I desire alone what after thirty yearsK
I got forever after thirty years satisfied enough with Peter with all IB
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wantedV
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with many men I knew one generation our sperm passingI
into our mouths and bellies beautiful when I love givenN
Now the dream oldens I olden my hair a year long my thirtyeightV
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birthday approachingI
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I dream IB
am bald am disappearing the campus unrecognizable Haledon AvenueN
will be covered with neon motels Supermarkets ironN
the porches and woods changed when i go back to see Earl againN
He'll be bald fleshy father I could pursie him further in the garageY
If there's still a garage on the hill on the planet when I get backI2
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From AsiaE2
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If I could even remember his name or his face or find himZ
When I was ten perhaps he exists in some formA2
With a belly and a belt and an autoV
Whatever his last name I never knew in the phonebook the AkashicI2
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recordsK
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I'll write my Inspiration for all Mankind to rememberM
My Idea the secret cave in the clothes closet that house probably downN
Nothing to go back to everything's gone only my ideaE2
that's disappearing even in dreams gray dust piles instant annihilationN
of World War II and all its stainless steel shining mouthed cannonsK
much less me and my grammar school kisses I never kissed in timeJ2
and go on kissing in dream and out on the street as if it were for everM
No forever left Even my oldest forever gone in Bangkok in BenaresK
swept up with words and bodies all into the brown GangesK
passing the burning grounds and into the police stateV
My mind my mind you had six feet of Earth to hoeV
Why didn't you remember and plant the seed of Law and gather the sproutsK
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of WhatV
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the golden blossoms of what idea If I dream that I dream what dreamA
should I dream next Motorcycle rickshaws parting lamp shine littleK2
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taxis horses hoofsK
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on this Saigon midnight street Angkor Wat ahead and the ruined city's oldV
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Hindu facesK
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and there was a dream about Eternity What should I dream when I wakeI2
What's left to dream more Chinese meat More magic Spells More youthsK
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to love before I change disappearO
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More dream words For now that I know that I am dreamingI2
What next for you Allen Run down to the Presidents Palace full of MorphineN
The cocks crowing in the street Dawn trucks What is the questionN
Do I need sleep now that there's light in the windowV
I'll go to sleep Signing off until the next idea the moving van arrivesK
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emptyV
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at the Doctor's house full of Chinese furnitureM

Allen Ginsberg



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