For allen Ginsberg, died 5 april 19...

For allen Ginsberg, died 5 april 1997

translated by means of Tony Frazer


You weren't there when I came to recently made known York
the first time in my life, in September 1987
I simply found your factory, only the verse workshop.
People were working at copiers and a fax machine.
Someone showed me the apartment with your bed.
I hadn't asked after it, had feared it admitting
You weren't there, and I was amused, embarrassed.
"This is the shrine and where he meditates!" "I see"
You'd left the fat r main division
with your Collected metrical compositions with an overlooked drawing,
and the dedication