Ginsberg Love Letter

Dear sweet mad bearded
naked bard guardian
angel of my soul:

Oh Allen,
I remember how you saw me through
those lost vagrant nights I suffered
choking on insomniac bull frogs
of insoluble cosmic revelation

So many nights I cried...
Desperately longing to confide...
I found you...
someone who could relate
to such an unruly manic mind
hurricane of tyrannous thought

A fellow self combustible Cassandra
conjuring locomotive banshee dynamo visions
of a shattered shadowless earth...

Someone who could feel the transmissions of
ancient radio tower pain...

You helped calm those
alien schizophrenic shivers...
soothed a screaming psyche...
Gave a voice to a mouth
once mute with fear

Thank you Allen,
for leaving love's trail of
subterranean sunflower seeds in your wake...

...I now see them sky bound sprouting
as I walk the golden-laurel path you helped lay

Oh how low I used to hang
my soggy hop washed head...
How drunk I was on myself …
How little I shared with others...
So many lizards and cockroaches
loitering inside...
I could never let another soul in
to help refurbish rotgut wasted walls....
How awash I was in ego insecurity...

Allen, your drunken escapade revelations sobered me up.

Summer's I shave my age darkened locks off just for you
Always with a bearded face
carrying the glowing tan medals
of our shared alma mater
the universal uniform worn
in Whitman academy

Allen, mailing letter's of laurel gysum to the world,
you knew the exact local of my soul's address

OH Allen,
You escaped this life alive!
of this I am certain:

I feel your poetic heart...

Beats resonating daily in my chest!

poem by Gregory Allen Uhan
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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