What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night!…

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg

A Supermarket in California · 1956

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Ginsberg, Allen. "A Supermarket in California." Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Books, 1956.

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