Whose Allen Is this?

For Allen Ginsberg whose "books were published in heaven"

Whose Allen is this?
this is your Allen
my Allen
this is Walt Whitman’s
Allen
Peter Orlovsky’s
Allen operatic pizza boy
Allen chimney sweep
Allen
cat getting fucked in
a dumpster Allen
Gregory’s
Allen
Allen of the New York Times
too big for
obituaries..
This is Garcia
Lorca’s
Allen Allen of
rosaries and robin
hoods acid
reflux
Allen
Allen of street
urchins who beg for
change in
a foreign
language.
this Allen
boarded the bus
before the rest of
us Allen who gifts even
merchant marines with
last minute fellatio
and is with us still through
flotillas
Gaza inferno
parades and
the drone of war
this is Allen
who now dares
eternity to
give it a rest.




© Jayne Lyn Stahl