Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States

II
(...)
Of eternity we have
a numbered score of years
and fewer tender moments
- one moment of tenderness
and a year of intelligence
and nerves: one moment of pure
bodily tenderness -
I could dismiss Allen with grim
pleasure.
(...)


Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches, The Pocket Poets Series, Number Eighteen, City Lights Books, 1968.