Palimpsest 2: Kate Bornstein/Allen Ginsberg

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    Don’t kill yourself; Kill off the part of you that badly needs to die. Of course you are simply YOU, but you are also many versions of you that you create to deal with the world. Some of the yous you’ve created are like Frankenstein’s monster. You tried but you fucked up. Other yous might be really creepy. They embody selfish, mean or self-destructive parts of you rather than the loving parts of who you are. Maybe you are feeling ashamed or guilty about that particular you. Well, kill it off! / In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket. What peaches and what penumbras! I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?