White Shroud
I found myself again in the Great Eastern Metropolis,
wandering under Elevated Transport's iron struts-
many-windowed apartments walled the crowded Bronx road-way
I'm a great woman, I came here
by myself, I wanted to live, now I'm too old to take care
of myself, I don't care, what are you doing here?'
October 5, 1983, 6:35 A.M.
c Copyright Allen Ginsberg
Reproduced with the kind permission of the Wylie Agency
Originally published in 'White Shroud' and later
Selected Poems 1947-1995 (Page 353 for the complete poem)
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