Аллен Гинзберг в переводах Михаила Гунина

seduced me didn't  want to, made  me  come,  went home, never saw  him again
never wanted to… '
'He  couldn't  get it up but  loved me,'  'A clean old man.' 'He made sure I
came first'
This the crowd most surprised proud at ceremonial place of honor —
Then poets  & musicians — college boys'  grunge bands — age-old rock star
Beatles,
faithful guitar accompanists, gay classical conductors, unknown high Jazz
music composers, funky trumpeters, bowed bass & french horn black
geniuses, folksinger fiddlers with dobro tamborine harmonica mandolin
autoharp pennywhistles & kazoos
Next, artist Italian romantic  realists schooled in mystic 60's  India, Late
fauve
Tuscan painter-poets, Classicdraftsman Massachusets surreal jackanapes
with continental wives, poverty sketchbook gesso oil watercolor masters from
American provinces
Then highschool  teachers, lonely Irish  librarians,  delicate bibliophiles,
sex liberation troops nay
armies, ladies of either sex
'I met him dozens of times  he never  remembered my name I loved him anyway,
true artist'
'Nervous  breakdown after menopause,  his poetry humor saved me from suicide
hospitals'
'Charmant, genius with modest manners, washed sink, dishes my studio guest a
week
in Budapest'
Thousands of readers, 'Howl changed my life in Libertyville Illinois'
'I saw him read Montclair State Teachers College decided be a poet- '
'He turned me on, I started with garage rock sang my songs in Kansas City'
'Kaddish made me weep for myself & father alive in Nevada City'
'Father Death comforted me when my sister died Boston l982'
'I read what  he said in a newsmagazine, blew my mind, realized others  like
me out there'
Deaf & Dumb bards with hand signing quick brilliant gestures
Then Journalists, editors's secretaries, agents, portraitists & photography
aficionados, rock critics, cultured laborors, cultural historians come to
witness the historic funeral
Super-fans,  poetasters,  aging Beatnicks  &  Deadheads,  autograph-hunters,
distinguished paparazzi, intelligent gawkers
Everyone knew they were part of 'History' except the deceased
who never knew exactly what was happening even when I was alive