I’d better get right down to the 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.
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
He saw her from the bottom of the stairs
Before she saw him. She was starting down,
Looking back over her shoulder at some fear.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)