ENG 563 "Beat Literature"

"When the muse calls, answer!" - Allen Ginsberg

The room, I imagined, smelt warm.
The one in the short film
on the TV screen in Pummill Hall.

Thirty minutes into the first day
of class, the Jewish man
with large glasses and thick hair
was still asleep in bed.

Awakened, he rolled to the edge,
removed the cover,
and exposed his penis.

Class descriptions are often too short,
when you don't know what's Beat.