[00:00.0]A Supermarket in California
[00:03.21]What thoughts I have of you tonight,
[00:06.97]Walt Whitman,
[00:09.33]for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
[00:13.35]with a headache self-conscious
[00:15.12]looking at the full moon
[00:17.64]In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images,
[00:22.1]I went into the neon fruit supermarket,
[00:25.48]dreaming of your enumerations!
[00:27.25]What peaches and what penumbras!
[00:31.44]Whole families shopping at night!
[00:33.63]Aisles full of husbands!
[00:35.2]Wives in the avocados,
[00:36.96]babies in the tomatoes!
[00:38.41]--and you, Garcia Lorca,——
[00:41.52]what were you doing down by the watermelons?
[00:45.76]I saw you, Walt Whitman,
[00:48.77]childless, lonely old grubber,
[00:51.57]poking among the meats in the refrigerator
[00:54.53]and eyeing the grocery boys
[00:57.79]I heard you asking questions of each
[01:00.0]Who killed the pork chops?
[01:02.18]What price bananas?
[01:03.37]Are you my Angel?
[01:05.72]I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you,
[01:09.48]and followed in my imagination by the store detective
[01:13.77]We strode down the open corridors together
[01:16.70]in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes,
[01:20.70]possessing every frozen delicacy,
[01:23.70]and never passing the cashier
[01:26.13]Where are we going, Walt Whitman？
[01:29.2]The doors close in an hour
[01:30.53]Which way does your beard point tonight?
[01:33.56](I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)（
[01:39.96]Will we walk all night through solitary streets?
[01:43.72]The trees add shade tfo shade,
[01:45.98]lights out in the houses,
[01:47.68]we'll both be lonely
[01:48.62]Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love
[01:52.34]past blue automobiles in driveways,
[01:54.54]home to our silent cottage?
[01:57.11]Ah, dear father,
[02:00.95]graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher,
[02:05.71]what America did you have
[02:07.29]when Charon quit poling his ferry
[02:09.58]and you got out on a smoking bank
[02:12.37]and stood watching the boat
[02:13.97]disappear on the black waters of Lethe?