Flower of Industry

IN BACK OF THE REAL

A flower lay on the hay on

the asphalt highway

-the dread hay flower

I thought- It had a brittle black stem and

corolla of yellowish dirty

spikes like Jesus' inchlong

crown, and a soiled

dry cotton tuft

like a used shaving brush

that's been lying under

the garage for a year

Yellow, yellow flower and

flower of industry

tough, spikey ugly flower,

flower nonetheless,

with the form of the great yellow

Rose in your brain! This is the flower of the World

Photos by me, poetry by Allen Ginesburg