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can someone help me to understand what this poem means? what are the figures of speach in there and what is the poem trying to say? I just don't know.

A Supermarket in California

By Allen Ginsberg (316)

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked
down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious
looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the
neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras*? Whose families shopping at
night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocadoes, babies in the
tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca,* what were you doing down by
the watermelons?

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking
Among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you,
and followed in my imagination by the store detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy
tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing
the cashier.

Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour.
Which way does your beard point tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the super-market
and feel absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade
to shade, lights out in the houses, we’ll both be lonely.
Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue
automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what
America did you have when Charon* quit poling his ferry and you got
out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the
black waters of Lethe?*

2007-05-04 19:05:09 · 7 answers · asked by crissyk24 3 in Books & Authors

2007-05-04 19:05:03 · 11 answers · asked by Brian S 2 in Television

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2007-05-04 19:04:45 · 4 answers · asked by ihateandymilonakis 1 in Weather

(x^2-5x-9)/(x-3)
Please can you explain this in very simple terms, I don't understand this please help.

2007-05-04 19:04:26 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

2007-05-04 19:04:21 · 39 answers · asked by YAHOO GHOST 4 in Polls & Surveys

Honestly, when I've done badly in a comp, I look at it and think yah yah yah I know exactly where and why and how I messed up. But then there are times when I did well, and felt so awesome about what I did . . . and then I look at the video and still cringe! HA! I look slower, knees aren't as bent as much as I think, jumps aren't as high, spins aren't as fast, extentions aren't as extended - know what I mean?? Maybe videos don't justify how you look skating in real life . . . or maybe it's totally telling the truth - HA! Please don't be mean here about MY skating . . . I'm just wondering how you guys "see" your skating!

2007-05-04 19:04:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ice Skating

2007-05-04 19:04:13 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

My 14 year old cousin is roughly 5ft 2in and weighing in at approximately 240lbs. I'm so concerned about her well being, i'd like her to drop some of the weight and i've done everything I can think of within my bounds as a cousin to help. Her parents are also hiddeously overweight, naive and ignorant. There isn't a medical problem, it's a stuffing themselves with food and no exersize problem. I've offered to enroll her into a camp for obese teens, curves, I bought her a nice new bike that doesn't want to ride, and even went as far as to contact her school to see if there was any counciling available for her through the health services department. I've tried incentives as well i.e. if you go on a hike with me today i'll bring you to hot topic and buy you some clothes. Nothing seems to be working. It's really sad that i'm the only one in the family that sees this going on,or wants to... I consider it child abuse. With all that said, what would be your next step if anything? Oprah? lol

2007-05-04 19:03:56 · 9 answers · asked by Sam 2 in Diet & Fitness

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2007-05-04 19:03:55 · 3 answers · asked by Unknown 3 in Mathematics

Is it something that I'll have to deal with for the rest of my life? I don't do drugs( except for a few times a year I smoke pot with friends but it is not a habit and definetly an not addiction) Aren't any sober women left that just want somebody for who they are and not for the drugs they can provide? I am frustrated and angry...Is this fact just isolated to Florida?
I refuse to belive that is the truth and that if a guy doesn't have the STUFF then the woman has nothing to gain from the relationship. It almost sound like an interchanged of sex and drugs... i really hope that is just in my mind and I've been very unlucky to find that special somebody,yet...

2007-05-04 19:03:53 · 5 answers · asked by theworstartist 2 in Singles & Dating

2007-05-04 19:03:21 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

every time i see a pretty girl i get,uh,"happy" if u kno wat i mean.im not having a deep voice i think and i have plugs but not alot. am i going through puberty?any advice

2007-05-04 19:02:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

My puppy is a mini dachshund. He is 11 weeks old. The only time he isnt biting my hands is when he is sleeping. He has plenty of chew toys, all different textures, he isnt chewing anything else, just my hands.

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My mother once told me that when i was a young bean that i ate white out but i don't remember what it taste like........ I am a very busy old bean and i don't want any stupid answers eventhough this isn't the most practicule question. I wonder.....does it taste like glue becuz that is nasty tasting and don't ask me how i no this. I'm off to see big ben cheerio old chap.

2007-05-04 19:02:04 · 8 answers · asked by Lily N 1 in Jokes & Riddles

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IM BUYING A HOUSE & WILL HAVE TO DAMP PROOF IT & REPLACE THE PURLINS ON THE ROOF.HAS ANY ONE HAD EXPERIENCE IN THIS AREA IN TERMS OF COST.

2007-05-04 19:01:28 · 8 answers · asked by mielo 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

For all those men who claim that the straights are all exclusively or even primarily heterosexuals just because their manipulative society has defined it as such, and because there exists a separate 'gay' identity they claim that all men who like men are there...........

How come in ancient Greece and several such societies the vast majority of men had sexual relations with another man during their youth, and they married only when they reached 30. Furthermore, they carried on their male bonds even after that, and marriage was considered more a social duty, and for reproduction.

Similarly, in the oldest living tribals that we have interacted with, the tribes of Papa New Guinea ------ all men primarily have sexual relations only with other men. They have sex with women only for reproduction. They have contined till today ----- several thousands of years.

This lifestyle is exactly in tandem with how mammals live in the wild.

2007-05-04 19:01:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

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2007-05-04 19:00:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mental Health

It looks like the NCAA has decided to make 3 pointers harder to make. Tell me how you think this will change college basketball.

2007-05-04 19:00:37 · 9 answers · asked by IAmDamon1 2 in Basketball

if this is the case, then should i not be allowed to have sex, even with my husband, just because i am unable to have children?

2007-05-04 18:59:36 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-04 18:59:20 · 23 answers · asked by peter2156 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-04 18:59:03 · 8 answers · asked by air_borne_88 5 in Toronto

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2007-05-04 18:58:51 · 17 answers · asked by sweetness23 3 in Marriage & Divorce

I mean something sexually naughty!!! I either think of things that are TOO naughty, or not naughty enough! AHH!!
ANY OPINIONS?

2007-05-04 18:58:34 · 8 answers · asked by mr.t'smom 2 in Marriage & Divorce

What are some prayers that you have had answered through the rosary?

Please, Non-Catholics, we already know what you think so I would appreciate it if you would refrain from chiming in on this one. Thanks.

2007-05-04 18:58:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

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Has anyone had this happen to their dog? What is the active compontent in toad venom? What does it do to a dog? I have heard that it has halluenagenic properties and that it can cause death. Is this true? No one seems to know for sure.

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2007-05-04 18:58:00 · 2 answers · asked by air_borne_88 5 in Toronto