The Cultural Frequency of a Broken Promise America, by ALLEN GINSBERG

July 20, 2026

The Cultural Frequency of a Broken Promise America, by ALLEN GINSBERG

    Allen Ginsberg
  
        America by ALLEN GINSBERG (1956)
      
        The cultural frequency of a broken promise
      
America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.

    America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956.

    I can’t stand my own mind.

    America when will we end the human war?

    Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.

    I don’t feel good don’t bother me.

    I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind.
America when will you be angelic?

    When will you take off your clothes?

    When will you look at yourself through the grave?

    When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?

    America why are your libraries full of tears?

    America when will you send your eggs to India?
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.

    America is this correct?

    I’d better get down to job.

    It’s true I don’t want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts factories, I’m nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.

    America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.