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Allen Ginsberg - In Back Of The RealAllen Ginsberg - In Back Of The Real
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railroad yard in San Jose     I wandered desolate in front of a tank factory     and sat on a bench near the switchman`s shack. A flower lay on the hay on     the asphalt highway —the dread hay flower     I thought—It had a brittle black stem and     corolla of yellowish dirty spikes like Jesus` inchlong     crown, and a soiled dry center cotton tuft     like a used shaving brush that`s been lying under     the garage for a year. Yellow, yellow flower, and     flower of industry, tough spiky ugly flower,     flower nonetheless, with the form of the great yellow     Rose in your brain! This is the flower of the World.
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