The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg

Reality is a question

of realizing how real

the world is already.

Time is Eternity,

ultimate and immovable;

everyone’s an angel.

It’s Heaven’s mystery

of changing perfection :

absolute Eternity

changes! Cars are always

going down the street,

lamps go off and on.

It’s a great flat plain;

we can see everything

on top of a table.

Clams open on the table,

lambs are eaten by worms

on the plain. The motion

of change is beautiful,

as well as form called

in and out of being.

Next : to distinguish process

in its particularity with

an eye to the initiation

of gratifying new changes

desired in the real world.

Here we’re overwhelmed

with such unpleasant detail

we dream again of Heaven.

For the world is a mountain

of shit : if it’s going to

be moved at all, it’s got

to be taken by handfuls.

Man lives like the unhappy

whore on River Street who

in her Eternity gets only

a couple of bucks and a lot

of snide remarks in return

for seeking physical love

the best way she knows how,

never really heard of a glad

job or joyous marriage or

a difference in the heart :

or thinks it isn’t for her,

which is her worst misery.

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• The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Song Of The Old Mother by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Shadowy Waters: The Harp of Aengus by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Seven Sages by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Scholars by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Saint And The Hunchback by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Sad Shepherd by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Tree by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Of The World by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Of Peace by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Rose Of Battle by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Results Of Thought by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Realists by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Pity Of Love by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Pilgrim by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Phases Of The Moon by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The People by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats

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