Lyrics and translation Allen Ginsberg - In Back of the Real
Railroad
yard
in
San
Jose
Dépot
de
chemin
de
fer
à
San
Jose
I
wandered
desolate
Je
me
suis
promené
dans
le
désespoir
In
front
of
a
tank
factory
Devant
une
usine
de
chars
And
sat
on
a
bench
Et
je
me
suis
assis
sur
un
banc
Near
the
switchman's
shack.
Près
de
la
cabane
du
garde-barrière.
A
flower
lay
on
the
hay
on
Une
fleur
reposait
sur
le
foin
sur
The
asphalt
highway
L'autoroute
asphaltée
I
thought--It
had
a
J'ai
pensé--Elle
avait
une
Brittle
black
stem
and
Tige
noire
et
cassante
et
Corolla
of
yellowish
dirty
Corolle
de
pointes
jaunes
sales
Spikes
like
Jesus'
inchlong
Comme
la
couronne
de
Jésus
longue
d'un
pouce
Crown,
and
a
soiled
Et
un
centre
sec
et
sale
Dry
center
cotton
tuft
Touffe
de
coton
Like
a
used
shaving
brush
Comme
un
blaireau
de
rasage
usagé
That's
been
lying
under
Qui
a
été
couché
sous
The
garage
for
a
year.
Le
garage
pendant
un
an.
Yellow,
yellow
flower,
and
Fleur
jaune,
fleur
jaune,
et
Flower
of
industry,
Fleur
de
l'industrie,
Tough
spiky
ugly
flower,
Fleur
dure,
épineuse
et
laide,
Flower
nonetheless,
Fleur
néanmoins,
With
the
form
of
the
great
yellow
Avec
la
forme
de
la
grande
rose
jaune
Rose
in
your
brain!
Dans
ton
cerveau!
This
is
the
flower
of
the
World.
C'est
la
fleur
du
monde.
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1
Howl
2 My Sad Self (For Frank O'hara) (Robert Creeley's Home 1959)
3 Laughing Gas Part 1 (Robert Creeley's Home 1959)
4 Back on Times Square/Dreaming of Times Square (Robert Creeley's Home 1959)
5 Kaddish (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
6 To Lindsay (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
7 Ignu (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
8 To Aunt Rose (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
9 The Lion for Real (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
10 Wrote This Last Night (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
11 Squeal (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
12 Message from Paris (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
13 Poem Rocket (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
14 To Aunt Rose (Robert Creeley's Home 1959)
15 Europe, Europe (Chicago Reading 1959)
16 Transcription of Organ Music (Chicago Reading 1959)
17 A Supermarket in California (Chicago Reading 1959)
18 Sunflower Sutra (Chicago Reading 1959)
19 Kaddish
20 Europe! Europe!
21 Strange Coittage in Berkeley
22 In Back of the Real
23 America
24 Transcription of Organ Music
25 A Supermarket in California
26 Footnote to Howl
27 The Sunflower Sutra
28 America (Chicago Reading 1959)
2 My Sad Self (For Frank O'hara) (Robert Creeley's Home 1959)
3 Laughing Gas Part 1 (Robert Creeley's Home 1959)
4 Back on Times Square/Dreaming of Times Square (Robert Creeley's Home 1959)
5 Kaddish (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
6 To Lindsay (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
7 Ignu (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
8 To Aunt Rose (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
9 The Lion for Real (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
10 Wrote This Last Night (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
11 Squeal (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
12 Message from Paris (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
13 Poem Rocket (Poetry Centre, San Francisco 1959)
14 To Aunt Rose (Robert Creeley's Home 1959)
15 Europe, Europe (Chicago Reading 1959)
16 Transcription of Organ Music (Chicago Reading 1959)
17 A Supermarket in California (Chicago Reading 1959)
18 Sunflower Sutra (Chicago Reading 1959)
19 Kaddish
20 Europe! Europe!
21 Strange Coittage in Berkeley
22 In Back of the Real
23 America
24 Transcription of Organ Music
25 A Supermarket in California
26 Footnote to Howl
27 The Sunflower Sutra
28 America (Chicago Reading 1959)
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