Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad - A poem by Allen Ginsberg


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Allen Ginsberg - Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad

I came home and found a lion in my room...
[First draft of "The Lion for Real" CP 174-175]


A lion met America
in the road
they stared at each other
two figures on the crossroads in the desert.

America screamed
The lion roared
They leaped at each other
America desperate to win
Fighting with bombs, flamethrowers,
knives forks submarines.

The lion ate America, bit off her head
and loped off to the golden hills
that's all there is to say
about america except 
that now she's 
lionshit all over the desert.

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Poet: Allen Ginsberg Poem: Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad Volume: Journals Mid Fifties 1954-1958 Year: Published/Written in 1955 Poem of the Day: May 27 2003 Comment 1 of 1, added on April 22nd, 2007 at 2:42 PM. I love this poem! The way the lion is meant to represent America's rival; the title that implies the rivals have nothing yet America stil lands up as lionshit! nice Caila Botes from South Africa More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, and perhaps post a comment of your own.

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Poet: Allen Ginsberg Poem: Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad Volume: Journals Mid Fifties 1954-1958 Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: May 21 2013, 7:54AM Poem of the Day: May 27 2003 Viewed 8350 times. Added Feb 20 2003.

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