DopeFiend Blues by Allen Ginsberg

I’m a dopefiend sitting in my bedroom high
I didn’t even light up no muggles, don’t know why
I’m just naturally a dopefiend under empty sky

Yes I’m a dopefiend I don’t sniff cocaine
I hear the walls ringing my nose is still in pain
It’s snowing all round NY City gimme a 2 penny plain

Oho I’m a dopefiend shoulda seen me usta mainline
Yah seen me shoulda shoot that white heroine
useta get the chills but never burnt down my mind

Hey hey Oh Lord Dope Fiend I dropped LSD
I seen Manhattan’s towers stick up in Eternity
Ten years ago you shoulda took the elevator up with me, Holy!

Ha Ha I’m a dopefiend niggerlovin commie faggot queen
I’m a beatnik hippie longhair but a square I never been
But if you Mother see my picture in the paper she say I look clean

Hey I’m a dopefiend I’m a dopefiend I breathe sweet clean air
I don’t shoot speed in my arm never more I’m a dopefiend everywhere
I’m a dopefiend in the policeman’s eyes Yeah They wouldn’t dare

to bust me for dopefiend I don’t carry any shit around
I’m just a dopefiend by nature I like to sit on the ground
all naked with my clothes on make a blue mantra sound

I’m a dopefiend I’m a dopefiend gonna bust this nation’s mind
I’m gonna put LSD in your prayers & laughing gas in the wind
ether & peyote gonna drive Mount Rainier blind–

I’m a dopefiend I roll my soul in friendly grass
Dopefiend Dopefiend I carry Nothing but Dharma up my ass
Yeaas all you dopefiends hear me! out there in the middle class!

Hey rich dopefiend when you gonna change the laws?
Hey poor dopefiend join the Socialist Revolutionary party because
They gonna legalise existence, everybody ride a big white horse.

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“Renowned poet, world traveler, spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) defied simple classification.” Read More

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