_________________ P O E M S by allen ginsberg This Form of Life Needs Sex Rock Song An Eastern Ballad _________________ Poems and illustrations excerpted with permission from Illuminated Poems by Allen Ginsberg with illustrations by Eric Drooker (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996)

On Neal's Ashes Delicate eyes that blinked blue Rockies all ash nipples, Ribs I touched w/ my thumb are ash mouth my tongue touched once or twice all ash bony cheeks soft on my belly are cinder, ash earlobes & eyelids, youthful cock tip, curly pubis breast warmth, man palm, high school thigh, baseball bicept arm, asshole anneal'd to silken skin all ashes, all ashes again. August 1968